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<p>Prior to 2010 the Department for Education’s central records of new establishments
do not allow us to determine if schools are new provision or whether they replace
existing schools (i.e. due to an amalgamation or move from three tier to two tier
education).</p><p>Since then the number of schools that have applied to become academies
is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Academic Year</p></td><td><p>Number of
Converter Academies<sup>i</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>796</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>860</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>684</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14
(to date)</p></td><td><p>522</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><sup>i </sup>Schools
which have converted to academy status are not identified for conversion by the local
authority. It is up to individual schools to apply to convert to become academies
unless they are underperforming, in which case the department will look to match them
with a sponsor.</p><p>Between 2010 and 2012, local authorities held 41 competitions
under section 7 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006, as amended by the Education
Act 2011, to create new schools. The numbers opening per academic year are:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Academic
Year</p></td><td><p>Number of Academies</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In
addition, the department also records all new academies created under local authorities’
duties to secure sufficient schools (section 14 of the Education Act 1996) since the
academy presumption was established in February 2012. Ninety-two new academies have
been created, or are in the process of being created, through this route (75 in agreement,
17 in the pipeline).</p><p>These are broken down into academic years as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Academic
Year</p></td><td><p>Number of Academies<sup> ii</sup></p></td><td><p>Number in pipeline
(of the total number)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><sup>ii
</sup>40 of these new academies were funded through the Government’s Targeted Basic
Need Programme (8 due to open in September 2014, 32 due to open in September 2015).</p><p>
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