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School to join academy trust after grading
Yorkshire Evening Post
|August 04, 2025
A Leeds primary school is poised to become the ninth to join the Owlcotes Multi-Academy Trust. Hovingham Primary School will transfer to academy status after gaining approval from the Department for Education (DfE) in December 2024, Leeds City Council has confirmed.
The trust portfolio includes Armley Park and Morley Victoria primaries. The move follows successive Ofsted inspections that rated Hovingham as requiring improvement, in November 2021 and February 2024.
A spokesperson for Leeds City Council said: “We can confirm we will now be entering into a commercial transfer agreement with the governing body of Hovingham and the Owlcotes Multi-Academy Trust (MAT).
This story is from the August 04, 2025 edition of Yorkshire Evening Post.
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