Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which Free Schools are pre-approved to open; and what the planned admission number is for each school in the first year of opening.
A list of the free schools that are currently approved to the pre-opening stage is provided below, together with the proposed planned admissions number (PAN) for the first year of opening.
These planned admission numbers may change prior to opening in some cases.
Name of free school approved into the pre-opening stage | Proposed PAN |
Akaal Primary School | 60 |
ARK Byron Primary Academy (formerly ARK Ealing Primary Academy) | 60 |
ARK Croydon Primary Academy | 90 |
ARK Croydon Secondary Academy | 180 |
ARK North Enfield Academy | 270 |
ARK Pioneer Academy | 90 |
Belham Free School | 90 |
Burlington Danes Primary Academy | 60 |
Canary Wharf College 3 | 80 |
City Gateway Hackney | 95 |
City Gateway Newham | 95 |
Crystal Palace Primary School | 60 |
Drapers' Maylands Primary School | 60 |
Ealing Fields High School | 120 |
East Cheshire Youth Achievement Free School | 40 |
EBN Free School Phase 2 | 70 |
Eden Boys' School, Birmingham | 150 |
Eden Boys' School, Preston | 150 |
Eden Girls' School, Slough | 150 |
Elements Primary School | 60 |
Elliott Hudson College | 520 |
Falcons’ Primary School | 90 |
Gateway Academy | 100 |
Gladstone School | 120 |
Hackney New Primary School | 50 |
Hackney Wick Academy | 150 |
Halley House (formerly Dalston) Free Primary School | 60 |
Harperbury Free School | 120 |
Harris Chafford Hundred Secondary Free School | 180 |
Harris Primary Academy Beckenham | 60 |
Harris Primary Free School Nunhead | 60 |
Harris Primary Free School Tottenham Hale | 270 |
Hoe Valley Free School | 120 |
Hunsley Primary School | 30 |
International Academy of Greenwich | 100 |
Khalsa Engineering Academy | 60 |
Kilburn Grange School | 60 |
King Solomon International Business school | 150 |
Kingston Community School | 60 |
LIPA Sixth Form College | 120 |
Luton Girls' Academy | 120 |
Maiden Erlegh School in Reading | 180 |
Mendip School, The | 34 |
Milton Keynes Free School | 45 |
NAS Church Lawton School | 33 |
NAS Vanguard School | 33 |
Oasis Academy Romford | 60 |
Pentland Special School | 32 |
Perry Beeches - The Primary School I | 100 |
Perry Beeches V - The Free School | 360 |
Perry Beeches VI - The Free School | 360 |
Polam Hall School | 158 |
Powerlist Post 16 Leadership College | 300 |
Ramsgate Free School | 60 |
Richmond Bridge Primary School | 60 |
Richmond upon Thames College Free School | 150 |
Riverside Special School | 42 |
Sidney Stringer Primary Academy | 60 |
St Mary's CE Primary School | 60 |
STEM Academy Croydon Gateway | 230 |
Surbiton Primary School | 60 |
Temple Learning Academy | 60 |
The Ashworth Preparatory School (formally Lodge Park) | 60 |
The Bridge Integrated Learning Space | 20 |
The Edge Academy | 60 |
The Kingston Academy (formerly North Kingston) | 180 |
The Langley Academy Primary | 90 |
The Legatum Academy | 240 |
The University of Birmingham School and Sixth Form | 290 |
The University of Cambridge Training School | 120 |
Turing House School | 150 |
Twickenham Primary School | 60 |
Unity Community Primary | 56 |
Walthamstow Primary Academy | 60 |
West Didsbury CE Primary School | 60 |
West Reading Education Network (WREN) Secondary School | 168 |
Wolverhampton Vocational Training Centre | 25 |