Free Schools: Religion

(asked on 18th June 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of single-sex free schools is of a religious character.


Answered by
Edward Timpson Portrait
Edward Timpson
This question was answered on 25th June 2015

The department does not collect information on the percentage of children of any faith or of no faith in free schools. Of the 212 open mainstream free schools there are 8 single-sex schools (3.8%), of which 6 (75%) have a religious character.

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