Academies: Closures

(asked on 1st December 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many secondary academies her Department has closed since (a) 2010 and (b) 2015.


Answered by
Edward Timpson Portrait
Edward Timpson
This question was answered on 8th December 2016

The Department for Education has not closed any academies (excluding free schools, studio schools and UTCs) solely as a result of Ofsted reports. When a decision is taken to close an academy many factors are taken into consideration. Closure in this context is taken to include the complete permanent closure of a school, as well as closures which take place as a result of allowing schools to amalgamate or merge. An academy may also be re-brokered. This is where an academy changes trust and/or sponsor and is closed and re-opened as a new academy in a different trust.

59 academies have been closed since 2010. The majority of these have either been re-brokered, amalgamated or merged with other academies.

There have been complete closures of four academies. Two of these academies are secondary academies and have closed since 2015.

Of these four academies, only one was rated as Inadequate by Ofsted in the inspection prior to its closure, although at its previous inspection it was rated as Good.

Establishment Name

Close Date

Phase Of Education

Last Ofsted grade

Last Ofsted date

The Marlowe Academy

03/09/2015

Secondary

Requires Improvement

10/07/2013

Manchester Alternative Provision Academy

01/09/2014

Not applicable

No inspection data

No inspection data

Weston Academy

31/12/2015

Primary

Inadequate

21/01/2015

Oasis Academy Hextable

31/08/2016

Secondary

Requires Improvement

22/04/2015

One secondary school, Oasis Academy Hextable, closed within three years of their conversion from a state secondary school. This school was part of the Oasis multi academy trust and after the trust reviewed pupil projections it was deemed that this academy was not viable.

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