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Free Schools: Birmingham

Asked by Laurence TurnerLabourDepartment for EducationTabled Answered 25 July 2024UIN 264

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department’s transparency data, entitled Local authority applications to open a special free school: waves 3 and 4, updated on 16 May 2024, what the expected opening date is of the Frankley Hill School in Birmingham.

Answered by Catherine McKinnell

The school, which is planned to be a 400 place, co-educational school for pupils aged 4 to 19 with Autistic Spectrum Disorders, was approved into the pre-opening stage in March 2024. Departmental officials are working closely with the local authority and the trust to agree an opening date.

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