 Ongar Leisure Centre, a joint use sporting facility, was retained.Secondary school children were then bussed to schools in the surrounding towns, particularly Brentwood and Shenfield.Twenty six years later in September 2015, the new secondary education school, The Ongar Academy, with no historic association to any previous Ongar school apart from being built on part of the site of the earlier Ongar County Secondary School in Shelley, opened adjacent to Ongar Leisure Centre on Fyfield Road.