Set up or convert to an academy
Information for new openers, important dates and deadlines, application forms, budgets, model documents and templates.
Services
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Apply to become an academy
Application processes for mainstream and special schools applying to convert to academy status.
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Academy conversion: support grant forms
Forms for schools converting to academies to claim the support grant and to declare what portion of the grant they've spent.
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Academy sponsor application form
If you are interested in becoming an academy sponsor, fill in the form and send it to your regional schools commissioner.
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Academy conversion: model directions for transferring land
Documents for schools transferring the freehold of their school site to the academy trust as part of the academy conversion process.
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Academy conversion: model ballot documents for grammar schools
Documents that grammar schools converting to academies must complete to make changes to their admissions criteria.
Guidance and regulation
- Convert to an academy: guide for schools
- 1. Before you apply
- Academy conversion: important dates
- 3. Set up or join an academy trust
- Sponsor an academy
News and communications
- Damian Hinds writes to NEU and CES: employment rights
- Education Secretary calls on more schools to become an academy
- The role freedom and autonomy has played in school improvement
- Nicky Morgan speech at the NAHT annual conference 2016
- Schools Commissioner calls for more academies in Derbyshire
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- West Midlands advisory board
- New school proposals
- Open academies, free schools, studio schools and UTCs
- Advisory board meetings schedule and preparation templates
- Academy sponsor list