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Education and Skills

City Academies

Mr. Redwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what target he has set for the number of city academies to be established in England by May 2010. [140969]

Jim Knight: The Government are firmly committed to establishing 400 Academies over time. The formal target for 2010, as announced in the Government's five-year strategy for education of July 2004, is for 200 academies to be open or in the pipeline by 2010.

Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many academy schools (a) are taking students, (b) will open to students before the end of 2007, (c) have opened and (d) he has discussed with sponsors. [140972]

Jim Knight: There are 47 academies now open. We anticipate that a further 36 will open before the end of 2007. As part of progress towards the target of 400 academies, the Department is in discussion with sponsors,
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schools and local authorities about 47 open academies; 25 academy projects in their implementation phase; and 68 projects where the Secretary of State has agreed a formal expression of interest with a sponsor for an academy project.

Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills who decides whether an academy school has a sixth form; and how many academies have no sixth form. [140974]

Jim Knight: The general policy is for academies to be post-16 providers in their own right to address low participation rates by adding to the diversity and quality of local provision. Where an academy proposal does not include post-16 provision, the Government would need to be assured that arrangements for post-16 students leaving the academy are comparable to those which could be provided by the academy itself. If, during the course of the consultation process that all academy projects are subject to, convincing arguments were put forward as to why the community would benefit more from an 11 to 16 than an 11 to 18 academy, this would of course be taken into account on a case by case basis.

Of the 47 open academies, three have no post-16 provision.

City Academies: General Certificate of Secondary Education

Mr. Redwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of pupils at state city academies obtained five or more A*-C passes at GCSE in 2006. [141022]

Jim Knight [holding answer 7 June 2007]: 49.4 per cent. of pupils in academies achieved five or more A*-C passes at GCSE or equivalent in 2005/06. This percentage is based on number of pupils on roll at the end of Key Stage 4 in the 2005/06 academic year and includes attempts and achievements by these pupils in previous academic years. The establishments included are those 24 academies with GCSE results open in 2005/06.

City Academies: Special Educational Needs

Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many and what proportion of pupils in each academy school have special educational needs; and what proportion of pupils take free school meals. [141034]

Jim Knight: The number and proportion of pupils with special educational needs (with and without a statement), and the number and proportion of pupils known to be entitled to free school meals in each of the 46 academies open in January 2007 is included in the following chart (sourced from School Census provisional data for January 2007).

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Name	Number of pupils with a statement of SEN( 1)	Percentage of pupils with a statement of SEN( 2)	Number of pupils with SEN without a statement( 1)	Percentage of pupils with SEN without a statement( 2)	Number of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals( 3)	Percentage of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals( 4)
The Academy of St. Francis of Assisi	8	1.2	232	35.0	312	47.1
St. Pauls Academy	48	6.9	213	30.4	179	25.6
The Marlowe Academy	19	2.8	330	48.7	197	29.1
Grace Academy	31	2.7	291	25.6	319	28.0
John Madejski Academy	22	4.3	201	39.6	151	29.1
Macmillan Academy	6	0.4	93	6.3	377	25.5
Dixons City Academy	13	1.2	80	7.3	79	7.2
Paddington Academy	23	2.3	182	18.4	501	50.8
The Petchey Academy	8	4.4	83	46.1	86	47.8
North Liverpool Academy	13	1.1	415	36.2	448	39.1
Westminster Academy	15	2.0	147	19.6	306	40.9
Harris Academy Bermondsey	9	1.0	283	32.2	533	60.6
The Barnsley Academy	11	2.5	123	27.9	165	37.3
Burlington Danes Academy	11	1.4	168	20.8	167	20.6
Sheffield Park Academy	13	1.2	526	49.7	385	36.3
Sheffield Springs Academy	10	1.0	343	35.1	345	35.0
Harris Academy Merton	20	3.1	132	20.3	195	30.0
David Young Community Academy	27	3.0	165	18.4	378	42.1
Harris Girls' Academy East Dulwich	0	0.0	181	23.4	314	40.5
Walthamstow Academy	15	2.2	212	31.2	216	31.8
The Gateway Academy	38	4.6	236	28.8	297	36.3
Greig City Academy	9	1.1	165	20.9	308	39.1
Walsall Academy	21	2.5	60	7.1	96	11.4
Unity City Academy	29	2.8	371	35.8	466	45.0
The Business Academy Bexley	48	4.4	470	42.9	394	35.9
St. Marks Church of England Academy	24	3.3	241	33.6	195	27.1
The City Academy Bristol	44	3.5	359	28.9	573	44.9
City of London Academy (Southwark)	37	4.6	171	21.4	273	34.2
The King's Academy	88	8.1	217	20.1	273	25.3
Manchester Academy	15	1.8	231	28.3	408	50.0
The Academy at Peckham	44	3.7	472	40.1	626	53.1
Capital City Academy	29	2.8	235	22.3	373	35.4
Djanogly City Academy Nottingham	3	0.2	512	32.1	597	37.5
West London Academy	17	2.0	466	54.8	394	46.3
Mossbourne Community Academy	30	4.9	123	20.0	249	40.6
Stockley Academy	12	1.6	212	28.7	298	40.3
London Academy	51	3.9	425	32.2	545	41.3
Northampton Academy	41	3.1	282	21.6	208	15.7
Lambeth Academy	21	3.9	192	36.1	229	43.0
Sandwell Academy	6	1.8	32	9.4	57	16.8
The Harefield Academy	11	2.0	171	30.4	90	16.0
Trinity Academy	24	2.0	145	12.1	184	15.4
Haberdashers' Aske's Knights Academy	24	3.3	206	28.1	325	44.3
Salford City Academy	3	0.5	166	29.1	105	18.0
Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College	29	2.1	252	18.4	293	21.3
Landau Forte College	(5)—	(5)—	81	7.8	99	9.6
(1) Excludes dually registered pupils. (2) Number of pupils with SEN with and without a statement expressed as a percentage of the total number on roll. (3) Includes dually registered and boarding pupils. (4) Number of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals expressed as a percentage of number on roll including dually registered and boarding pupils. (5) Less than three pupils, or a rate based on less than 3 pupils.

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