Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools were converted to (a) primary converter, (b) primary sponsored, (c) secondary converter and (d) secondary sponsored academies in each year from 2008 to 2023.
Between January 2008 and December 2023, 9,345 schools opened as primary converter academies, primary sponsored academies, secondary converter academies and secondary sponsored academies. A breakdown of this information by calendar year is given the following table:
| Primary | Secondary | ||
Converter | Sponsored | Converter | Sponsored | |
2008 |
|
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| 47 |
2009 |
|
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| 70 |
2010 | 25 |
| 68 | 68 |
2011 | 309 | 5 | 724 | 48 |
2012 | 423 | 171 | 366 | 76 |
2013 | 424 | 291 | 132 | 84 |
2014 | 393 | 264 | 68 | 56 |
2015 | 380 | 190 | 51 | 62 |
2016 | 545 | 148 | 64 | 34 |
2017 | 621 | 190 | 80 | 47 |
2018 | 604 | 162 | 64 | 44 |
2019 | 442 | 98 | 45 | 25 |
2020 | 198 | 59 | 21 | 17 |
2021 | 254 | 40 | 28 | 16 |
2022 | 258 | 44 | 22 | 13 |
2023 | 272 | 53 | 32 | 10 |
Table 1: Converter and sponsored academies opened between 2008 and 2023.