Education secretary Nicky Morgan signs off creation of 35 new schools
The government has approved the creation of a further 35 free schools in England which it says will create more than 22,000 additional school places.
Education secretary Nicky Morgan announced the approval at the Conservative Party conference inn Birmingham yesterday, saying the schools would “inject further choice, diversity and ideas into local communities across the land.”
The approved schools will now start searching to locate sites, and will add to the 251 free schools already opened by the coalition government since 2010, and a further 112 already in the pipeline.
The full list of newly approved free schools is:
East of England
Bedford Technical Academy, Bedford
Grove House School, Essex
The Ongar Academy, Ongar, Essex
St John’s Church of England Primary School, Hertfordshire
East Midlands
Wootton Park School, Northamptonshire
Channeling Positivity, Nottinghamshire
Daventry Special Academy, Northamptonshire
Green Oaks Academy Special School, Northamptonshire
Harington School, Rutland
North-east of England
Wynyard Church of England Primary School, Stockton-on-Tees
South-east of England
Eaglewood Free School, Hampshire
Forest Bridge School, Windsor and Maidenhead
Hope Community School, Southampton
The SASH 2 School, Slough
South-west of England
Bristol Futures Academy, Bristol
West Midlands
The British Sikh School, Wolverhampton
Finham Park 2, Coventry
Rugby Free Primary School, Warwickshire
London
ARK Ealing Academy, Ealing
ARK Wembley Primary Academy, Brent
The Atam Academy, Redbridge
Barnet Free Primary School, Barnet
The Beckenham Academy, Bromley
The Citizen School, Lewisham
Edison Primary School, Hounslow
Floreat Brentford Primary School, Hounslow
Harris Lambeth Sixth-Form Academy, Lambeth
Harrow Bilingual Primary School, Harrow
Harrow View Primary School, Harrow
Ideas College, Greenwich, London
North Twyford Church of England High School, Ealing
One Degree Academy, Brent
Pinner High School, Harrow
Riverside Primary School, Barking and Dagenham
Trinity High School, Merton
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