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There are about 30 state boarding schools in England, providing state-funded education but charging for boarding. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In addition, the Five Islands Academy in St Mary's, Isles of Scilly , provides free boarding during the week to secondary students from other islands.
The schools in England are organised into local education authorities.There are 150 local education authorities in England organised into nine larger regions. [1] According to the Schools Census, there were 3,408 [2] maintained government secondary schools in England in 2017.
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The School Census is a statutory data collection for all maintained (state-funded) schools in England.This includes nursery, primary, secondary, middle-deemed primary, middle-deemed secondary, local authority maintained special and non-maintained special schools, academies including free schools, studio schools and university technical colleges and city technology colleges.
School land and buildings are owned by the governing body or by a charitable foundation. The Foundation appoints a minority of governors. Many of these schools were formerly grant maintained schools. In 2005 the Labour government proposed allowing all schools to become Foundation schools if they wished.
Free schools in this category have one or more representatives of their Local Authority on the board of trustees. It is possible for a Local Authority to sponsor a free school in partnership with other organisations, provided they have no more than a 19.9% representation on the board of trustees.
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