Free Schools
(asked on 16th June 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which free schools have been approved in each local education authority area excluding London since 2010; and which such schools are (a) non-denominational and (b) of each religious denomination.
There are 174 open free schools in England. Published location information for all these schools is available on the Department for Education's website:
37 of those schools have a faith designation, of which 20 are in areas other than London and can be found in the table below, along with their religious designation.
Name of school | Local Authority | Faith Designation |
Al-Madinah School | Derby | Muslim |
Atherton Community School | Wigan | Christian |
Barrow 1618 Church of England School | Shropshire | Christian |
Becket Keys Church of England School | Essex | Christian |
Grindon Hall Free School | Sunderland | Christian |
Khalsa Secondary Academy | Buckinghamshire | Sikh |
King's School Hove | Brighton and Hove | Christian |
Krishna-Avanti Primary School | Leicester | Hindu |
Leeds Jewish Free School | Leeds | Jewish |
Niskham Free School | Birmingham | Sikh |
Nishkam High School | Birmingham | Sikh |
St Michael's Catholic Secondary School | Cornwall | Christian |
St Anthony's School | Gloucestershire | Christian |
St Mary's Primary School, Dilwyn | Herefordshire | Christian |
Tauheedul Islam Boys' High School | Blackburn with Darwen | Muslim |
The Olive School, Blackburn | Blackburn with Darwen | Muslim |
The Olive Tree Primary School | Bolton | Muslim |
Trinity School | Kent | Christian |
Tyndale Community School | Oxfordshire | Christian |
University Cathedral Free School | Cheshire West and Chester | Christian |
26% of mainstream free schools have a faith designation, as opposed to 34% of all state-funded mainstream schools.