Proposal to bring together Helenswood Academy and William Parker Academy ‘as a co-educational school with a strong emphasis on the performing arts and sports’ starting, from September 2019. School to operate across the Helenswood Lower School site (Years 7 and 8) and the William Parker site (Years 9 to 13).

In favour 45%
Against 42%
Don’t know 12%
No response 1%

Proposal to allow girls to be admitted into the William Parker School and to increase its Year 7 admissions to 360.

In favour 45%
Against 41%
Don’t know 13%
No response 1%

If these two proposals are approved, whether the school’s name should be Ark St Helen’s Academy ‘to reflect the importance of the school’s location, its Church of England ethos and its historic relationship to Helenswood’.

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In favour 35%
Against 44%
Don’t know 20%
No response 1%


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