In September 2015 secondary education returned to Ongar with the opening of The Ongar Academy adjacent to Ongar Leisure Centre on Fyfield Road, on land originally forming part of the Ongar County Secondary School [REF].
Chipping Ongar Infant School, originally located in Victoran school buildings off the High Street (behind Budworth Hall on the site of today's Sainsbury's) was re-located in the mid-1980s, merging with Chipping Ongar Junior School at Greensted Road, at the southern edge of the town, thus forming Chipping Ongar Primary School.