Doomed Schools Company Trust ‘double-counted’ GCSEs

A failed multi-academy trust that runs schools for vulnerable excluded pupils reported inflated GCSE results after double-counting some qualifications, it has been revealed.

Accounts of the Schools Company Trust, which will walk away from its three pupil referral units in Devon and mainstream secondary school in Kent this summer, reveal concerns over executive pay, fears for the safety of pupils and “unreliable” reporting of GCSE results.

According to the accounts, the trust reported last year that 48 per cent of pupils at North Devon Academy achieved “five GCSEs”, when the actual figure was 19.5 per cent

Doomed Schools Company Trust ‘double-counted’ GCSEs

 

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