Education
The town has two schools, Paddock Wood Primary School which was built in 1909, and which has approximately 600 pupils and Mascalls School, (a comprehensive secondary school), opened in 1956 and has around 1400 pupils, and it takes its pupils from Brenchley, Matfield, Capel, Five Oak Green, East Peckham, Horsmonden, Lamberhurst and Yalding, as well as Paddock Wood itself. The school has recently been extended with a purpose built Arts and Design block housing specialist facilities for Art, Music, Drama, Dance and Design Technology.
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