Written question asked by Nick Gibb (Conservative) on Monday, 4 March 2024, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 6 March 2024. It was answered by Damian Hinds (Conservative) on Tuesday, 12 March 2024 on behalf of the Department for Education.

Academies

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools were converted to (a) primary converter, (b) primary sponsored, (c) secondary converter and (d) secondary sponsored academies in each year from 2008 to 2023.

Answer

Between January 2008 and December 2023, 9,345 schools opened as primary converter academies, primary sponsored academies, secondary converter academies and secondary sponsored academies. A breakdown of this information by calendar year is given the following table:

	Primary		Secondary
	Converter	Sponsored	Converter	Sponsored
2008				47
2009				70
2010	25		68	68
2011	309	5	724	48
2012	423	171	366	76
2013	424	291	132	84
2014	393	264	68	56
2015	380	190	51	62
2016	545	148	64	34
2017	621	190	80	47
2018	604	162	64	44
2019	442	98	45	25
2020	198	59	21	17
2021	254	40	28	16
2022	258	44	22	13
2023	272	53	32	10

Table 1: Converter and sponsored academies opened between 2008 and 2023.

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Type: Written question
Reference: 16585
Session: 2023-24
Subjects: Academies
Contains statistics: Yes
Link: View this Written question on www.parliament.uk

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