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23 October 2018
Decision in principle to close
The Bath Studio School
It is with much sadness that
Wellsway Multi Academy Trust
(WMAT
/Trust
) is
announcing
that
, following its request,
the Secretary of S
tate for Education
has granted a ‘decision in principle’
to close The Bath Studio School by
mutual consent. Following this a
pproval
in principle
there
will now be
a five
week
listenin
g period during which individuals and organisations can
put
forward their views
on the proposed closure
to [email protected]
.
The Bath S
tudio School (TBSS)
was opened in
September 2014 and has,
despite
consider
able effort, struggled to recruit students
. Although the
school’s
capacity is fo
r 300 students, aged from 14
-19,
it cur
rently educates
just 12
6 students
and
has never recruited more than 140
students in any one
of its five
academic
years
of existence.
This lack of demand has led to the
situation where the school is not financially viable, or educationally
sustainable, going forward.
The
Trust has reviewed several
options to keep TBSS open but none
are
likely to be
achievable within the
local
educational lands
cape and, reluctantly,
WMAT
has
therefore
made the request for closure.
If the request is given formal approval
, TBSS
will
close at the end
of the
school year 2019/20
with no further students being admitted to the school
from
September 2019. This will enable all current students to complete the
courses and qualif
ications they have enrolled on.
During this period
WMAT
will
work individually w
ith students to support their on-
going education and
transition
and will also be available to talk to their parents/carers
. WMAT
will
also
provide
advisory support for TBSS
staff,
and will look to
identify other
opportunities for them within other WMAT academies.
Aspire Academy
, which
shares a site with TBSS
, will remain with
in the Trust
and plans
are already underway to expand the school
to provide more places
for children with social, emotional and mental health needs
. Alongside this
expansion,
WMAT
is planning to work with the local authority to further
develop special school provision on the site
to meet the
growing
need for
more special school places
in Bath
& North East Somerset
.