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What is an Academy School

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Rosylee1976 · 09/04/2012 10:47

What is an Academy school and are there are implications for school admissions? Or does it not affect the process at all?

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mummytime · 09/04/2012 11:20

An Academy is an independently funded state school. Their admissions still have to abide by their admissions criteria, although I believe they can vary these, but they cannot change from being an unselective to a selective school.

I think as with all schools you have to judge them individually. There are also two main types, those that were failing schools and have been relaunched as Academies, and Outstanding schools (soon to be Good ones too) which have chosen ( sometimes pretty much forced) to convert.

Themumsnot · 09/04/2012 12:11

Being an academy doesn't affect the admission process as academies have to abide by the schools admissions code. The variations that can be applied are minor: they can choose to give priority to the children of staff and/or to prioritise children from families on free school meals. Some academies are implementing these variations, some are not.

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