The Denbigh Alliance Trust beat strong competition from other local and national multi academy trusts.
The new school will open in September 2020 and will be constructed on a site in Barossa Way in the new Whitehouse development. With a planned age range of 11–16 year olds, it will bring greater choice and the opportunity for more students to attend a local school. It will also mean better resources for the community and will create jobs for trades and local services, as well as for teaching and associate staff.
Enthusiastic about the benefits that expanding the ‘Denbigh family’ will bring, Chair of the Trustees, Willi Butler, said:
“Following on from the DfE announcement, that Denbigh School is the highest performing school in Milton Keynes, it is a wonderful and exciting prospect for the Trust to be able to be involved in a new school, providing what will eventually be 1800 new places for young people in the Whitehouse and Fairfields area.
“The Denbigh Alliance Multi Academy Trust has an ethos of creating a culture of success and we are so very pleased to have the opportunity to spread our philosophy further and deliver high quality education in a school that will be fully inclusive for the community it will serve.”
The Denbigh Alliance Multi-Academy Trust will work closely with Milton Keynes Council, who will have the overall responsibility for the build.
The competition was launched in September 2017 by Milton Keynes Council, in accordance with the Department for Education guidance, ‘The free school presumption – February 2016’. The new school will ensure that there are sufficient school places in time for the approximate 6,600 new homes to be built in the Western Expansion Area between 2016 and 2030.
