List of schools that have expressed an interest in becoming an Academy

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There is a list of schools that have contacted the Department for Education to express their interest in becoming an Academy - worth checking out to see if your child's school or potential school is on the list!

www.education.gov.uk/academies/schools-registering-interest

Was a bit weird at first as I know DCs federated primary school had applied for info, but they are in the jumbled bit of the list. Odd that they are separated by quite a bit, and I can't think that the two bits applied on separate days. Was surprised to see the senior school there, but they probably are also looking at the financial issue.
Was surprised to see a local Catholic school too, after what they were advised.

I can't get the links to work on the website. Do you know what format they are in?

I would not read too much into this list. Apparently schools who asked for further information are registered as having shown interest, when in fact they only wanted information and haven't decided yet.

Yes, there's virtually no information about it unless you do express an interest, so it's difficult to make an informed decision without doing so.

our upper school is on there....but i dont understand enough about this

snowlady is right, you had to register an interest just to receive information.
In addition it was not made clear to the schools at the time that if they registered an interest this woul later be published.

As an aside, you'd think the Department of Education would have someone who could sort a list into alphabetical order either under the school or the local authority. Surely it's just an Excel spreadsheet?!

i thought that belle

You could expect the majority of schools to at least request the information about the key change in education - this 'data' means nothing.

They are not that jumbled, they are alphabetical by Local Authority.

DS's potential high school is on there, but he is only 21 months old at the mo, and as we also have middle schools, high school is 12 years away.

How interesting .... several local state grammars are on the list, despite the following warning:

'In a statement the NGSA (National Grammar Schools Association) strongly advised grammar schools to be ?extremely cautious? as at present there are suggestions that academies may not be legally defined as ?maintained? schools. There are fears therefore that schools may lose their statutory protection of requiring a parental ballot before they are turned into a comprehensive. All academies to date have been all-ability intakes, there doesn't seem to be any provision for safeguards in order to turn grammars into academies....'

I would pmsl if the greedy grammars suddenly found they hadn't read the small print properly and had to accept 'all-ability intakes'. Bring it on!!!

DD's school has been accepted for the first stage, whatever that means. Got the letter home tonight.

Yep, our school is there. At this stage they're just registering interest, aren't they? Not committing to following through.

This explains it... I was rather at some of the schools listed... as an individual I had to give details just to find out more... and I haven't actually received anything yet either

bikerunski - perhaps I'm even more tired than I feel ,but if the schools are shown alphabetically by local authority ,why is the first local authority shown York ?

ok - I see ,schools that are outstanding and have registered an interest - all jumbled up and all over place .
Second list ,alphabetical.
Makes as much sense as the rest of my life at moment .

llareggub

southam college is on the list, aylesford, shipston on stour and stratford grammer and alcester grammer - thats it the county

Thanks IvyKaty44. Very interesting!

RollaCoasta...that's interesting!!!