Bury St Edmunds Academy Trust
As a school rated by Ofsted as "Outstanding" (1999, 2005, 2008, 2011) under the Academies Act 2010 County Upper School applied to become an Academy – a publicly funded independent school – in a chain with Horringer Court Middle School and Westley Middle School, joined together by an "Umbrella Trust", allowing the three schools to work together strategically to drive up even further their standards and results. The schools' applications to convert simultaneously to three separate academies were approved by the Department for Education and they all opened as academies within the overarching 9-18 Bury St Edmunds Academy Trust on 1 August 2011 thereby preserving a distinct Middle and Upper phase in the proposed two-tier education system after 2016 for the west of Bury St Edmunds and beyond.
Two further schools applied to become members of the Trust in 2012; Barrow CEVC Primary School and Howard Middle School. Should they be successful the aim is to create an age 4-19 pupil-centric all-through Academy Trust with the potential for students to move flexibly through the pyramid in accordance with their ability and aptitude.
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