Schools: Admissions
(asked on 2nd February 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and which (a) academies and (b) free schools applied to the Secretary of State to have their funding arrangements changed to allow them to vary their school admissions requirements in each year since 2009-10; and which such applications were approved.
In total, between 2012 and 2016, three requests have been considered by the Education Funding Agency (EFA) to vary in-year admissions arrangements of academies and free schools outside of the normal admissions timeframe. One relates to an academy and two to free schools. The two applications from the free schools were approved. The EFA was established in April 2012. We do not hold figures relating to this question prior to this date.
The table below sets out the number of requests from academies and free schools considered and approved by the EFA from 2012-13:
| Requests to vary admissions requirements | ||
| Academies | Free Schools | Approved |
2012-13 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2013-14 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2014-15 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2015-16 Current financial year to date i.e. April 15 to Jan 16 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Total | 1 | 2 | 2 |