ACADEMY STATUS

Academy Status for Holland Park

June 2011

Holland Park School is set to become an Academy in 2013, once its new school building is complete.  The historic move for Britain’s most famous comprehensive was agreed in principle last night (16 June 2011) by the school’s governors, with the full support of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

 “Like any dynamic and successful school, Holland Park is looking forward to its next stage of development, and to how it can maximize the interests of its pupils,” said, Cllr Elizabeth Campbell, the Royal Borough’s Cabinet Member for Education.

“We have long encouraged the school to do just that and we are giving this move to academy status our wholehearted support.

“We are extremely proud of what we – the Head, the staff, governors and Council - have achieved together. Today’s Holland Park is an outstanding school. And thanks to the Council, it will soon have an outstanding building to match.

“Despite the change in status, Holland Park Academy will have no better ally than the Royal Borough.”

Sir John Baker, Holland Park School Chair of Governors, said:

“Holland Park has come a very long way in recent years, but we want to go further and we think our best chance of doing that is as an academy. Our parents are behind us and so is the Royal Borough. 

“The Council has been a steadfast friend and supporter of the school and we are determined to maintain that close relationship.”

Earlier this month, Government school inspectors Ofsted placed Holland Park in the first rank of state schools by rating it as ‘outstanding’.