One of Manchester’s best primary schools is set to join one of the city’s major academy chains.
The New Islington Free School, in Ancoats, will join the Co-Op Academies Trust from today. The school has been rated ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted at its last inspection in 2015.
The Co-Op trust currently has 27 academies across the north, which educates 17,000 people. Its latest member started out in 2013 as a standalone trust.