A new £25m Bristol school built on a Bristol council estate has been told to change the wording of its admissions policy. It comes after it was accused of trying to engineer it so they take more children from more affluent areas of the city, instead of local children.
The Government’s Schools Adjudicator partially upheld a complaint made by Cllr Christine Townsend that a tweak to the wording of the admissions policy at Trinity Academy in Lockleaze was unclear. The Schools Adjudicator, Dr Marisa Vallely, has now formally ordered Trinity Academy, which is run by the Cathedral Schools Trust multi-academy trust organisation, to revise its admissions arrangements.
The school has played down the seriousness of the ruling, and said it welcomes feedback. It said it will "continue to work closely with Bristol City Council to ensure that the admissions arrangements meet the significant need for secondary school places in the north of the city".
