A WARRINGTON primary school has been converted into an academy.

Dallam Community Primary School is the latest school in the area to be converted to an academy status.

A letter announcing the conversion of the Boulting Avenue school was published by Ofsted today, Tuesday, stating the setting has joined The Challenge Academy Trust.

Under the Academies Act 2010, schools may apply to the Secretary of State to convert to academy status.

These schools are known as academy converters. On conversion to academy status, the existing school closes and a new school opens in its place. Although little may have changed, the academy converter is a new legal entity.

As Dallam Primary will not have received an Ofsted inspection since the conversion, a link to the predecessor school and its inspection will remain on the Ofsted website for three to five years.

National director of education, Lee Owston HMI, said: “It is important to note that, as the academy converter is a new school, which may not yet have been inspected, the inspection judgements of the predecessor school and any associated Ofsted logos are not those of the new academy.

“However, Ofsted takes into account the most recent inspection judgements of the predecessor school for the purpose of scheduling the first inspection of the new academy converter.”

Dallam’s former Ofsted inspection was carried out on June 13, 2023 and the school received a grading of ‘good’.