School ready for new status

THE city's highest-performing school is to become an academy this week after parents backed the move.

St Joseph's College, in Trent Vale, will be the first in the Potteries to convert to academy status under fast-track rules for outstanding schools. It takes on the new status on tomorrow.

Head Roisin Maguire said the major draw was the school having more control of its funding, so money could be spent on meeting students' needs.

Stoke-on-Trent already has two academy schools created under the original academy rules, which involve formally closing schools and re-opening them with backing from sponsors. Ormiston Sir Stanley Matthews Academy, in Blurton, and Tunstall's The Cooperative Academy At Brownhills opened in September. St Joseph's doesn't need a sponsor to convert.

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