Academies: Admissions
Commons · Question 92797 · Tabled 19 Nov 2025 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 28 Nov 2025
Question
Asked by Lisa Smart
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether any assessment has been made of the potential impact of allowing academy trusts to prioritise feeder schools within their own trust in their admissions policy on the average distance that children have
Answer
Answered by Georgia Gould, 28 Nov 2025
The School Admissions Code permits a trust naming another school in the trust as a feeder school. As with any selection of a feeder school, the trust must ensure that the named school is chosen on reasonable grounds, and the arrangements must be lawful an...