Chadwell Heath Academy (formerly known as The Chadwell Heath Foundation School) is a co-educational, independent of local authority secondary school with academy status, located in Chadwell Heath in the London Borough of Redbridge. The school has approximately 1200 pupils on roll, including 300 in the heavily over-subscribed, prestigious Sixth Form. Each pupil is assigned to one of six form houses; Austen, Bronte, Elliot, Orwell, Paton and Swift of which students remain a part of throughout their academic life, each form is named after a famed author.