Free Schools Nationally

Free Schools are all-ability state-funded schools set up in response to what local people say they want and need in order to improve education for children in their community.

The right school can transform a child’s life and help them achieve things they may never have imagined. Through the Free Schools programme it is now much easier for talented and committed teachers, charities, parents and education experts to open schools to address real demand within an area.

Further information about free schools is available on the Department of Education website.

New Schools Network (NSN) is a charity providing advice and guidance on how to set up successful new state schools.

List of Successful Free School Applications Opening 2012:

School Name Local Authority Phase
Alban City School Hertfordshire Primary
An Noor School Derby City All-Through
Atherton Community School Wigan Secondary
Barrow 1618 Shropshire Primary
Barwick’s Own 2nd Secondary School (BO2SS) Stockton-on-Tees Secondary
Becket Keys Church School Essex Secondary
Brighton Bilingual Primary School Brighton and Hove Primary
CET Primary School Tower Hamlets Primary
CET Primary School Westminster Primary
Chorley Career and Sixth Form Academy Lancashire Secondary
City of Peterborough Academy Peterborough Secondary
Cobham Free School Surrey Primary
Compass School, Southwark Southwark Secondary
Corby Free School Northamptonshire Secondary
Cramlington Village Primary School Northumberland Primary
Dixons City Free Primary Bradford Primary
Dixons City Free School Bradford Secondary
Emmanuel Community School Waltham Forest Primary
EN3 Primary School Enfield Primary
Europa School UK Oxfordshire All-Through
Frome Steiner Academy Somerset All-Through
Gateway Primary Free School Thurrock Primary
Golders Green Jewish Primary School Barnet Primary
Grindon Hall Free School Sunderland All-Through
Haringey Free School Haringey Primary
Harpenden Free School Hertfordshire Primary
Hatfield Community Free School Hertfordshire Primary
King’s School Woolston Warrington Secondary
Kingfisher Hall Primary Academy Enfield Primary
London Academy of Excellence Newham 16-19
Michaela Community School Lambeth Secondary
Newham Free Academy Newham Secondary
Nishkam School Trust Birmingham Secondary
North Ealing Church of England Academy Ealing Secondary
One in a Million Free School Bradford Secondary
Parkfield New School Bournemouth All-Through
Pimlico Primary Westminster Primary
Reach Academy: Feltham Hounslow All-Through
Reading University Technical Academy Reading Secondary
Rotherham Central Free School Rotherham Secondary
Sandymoor School Halton Secondary
School 21 Newham All-Through
Southwark Free School Southwark Primary
St Chaitanya’s School Harrow All-Through
St Michael’s Catholic Secondary School Cornwall Secondary
The Beccles Free School Suffolk Secondary
The Excellence Academy Sandwell Secondary
The Greenwich Free School Greenwich Secondary
The Hawthorne’s Free School Sefton Secondary
The Rural Enterprise Academy Staffordshire Secondary
The Saxmundham Free School Suffolk Secondary
The Swanage School Dorset Secondary
The Tiger School Kent Primary
Wapping High School Tower Hamlets Secondary
West of Wokingham Secondary Free School Wokingham Secondary