I wrote recently that academies are an interesting set of schools since their funding is different from that of local authority schools, and their financial year end is August 31 (thus they are not in the midst of the year-end situation that affects LA schools).
As of April 1 2011 there were 629 academies open in England. Of these 272 are schools that were previously “failing schools” and 357 are “academy converters” – schools that were doing well, and simply wanted to get out of LA control.
We’ve now arranged it so that you can select each of these subgroups, if you wish, for an email or a postal mail campaign.
I know that some organisations are quoting different numbers for academies – and this is generally because of the issue of annexes. Annexes occur particularly where schools have merged to form academies, and different sites are still open (and will remain open due to the end of the BSF programme). If you include the annexes in a mailing (and we can do this if you wish) the number rises to 681.
This 681 is then made up of 323 failing school sites, and 358 academy converter sites.
If you would like to use our list of personal email addresses, generic email addresses, or postal addresses for academies please do call 01536 399 000.
We will of course continue to update this list as new academies come on line.
Tony Attwood
Hamilton House Mailings Ltd reg number 2444392 VAT 354907535GB. Phone 01536 399 000.