THE SANDON SCHOOL ACADEMY TRUST

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

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Accounting basis

FRS 102

Auditor

Edmund Carr LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The funding agreement provides for a period of seven years of notice for any intention to withdraw from the current funding arrangements. After making appropriate enquires, the Board of Trustees has a reasonable expectation that the academy trust has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason it continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”

Significant events

• “The trust operates an academy for students aged 11 to 18 on the east side of Chelmsford. It has a student capacity of 1,080 for Years 7 to 11 and had a student roll of 1,064 in the spring 2025 school census.”
• “The total student numbers in the year ending August 2025 were 1,233 in the Spring 2025 Census.”
• “In March 2024, the school was inspected by Ofsted and was awarded a 'Requires Improvement'.”
• “On 8 June 2023 the school had an inspection for Reinforced autoclaved aerate concrete (RAAC) and a report received in July 2023 confirmed that the school buildings does not contain this material.”
• “50% of the school buildings underwent an LED replacement light project in the summer of 2023 (funded by ESFA capital grant). We have since achieved 75% of LED lighting across the school which should conclude to 100% by Summer 2026.”
• “The school maintains a strong financial position; this is achieved by being at capacity for most year groups and good financial management.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

7

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

2

last 12 months

Officers resigned

2

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +6.1%

  £9,025,543 → £9,578,548

• Cash

  +16.7%

  £1,436,932 → £1,676,478

• Net assets

  -6.1%

  £5,225,353 → £4,905,986

• Employees

  +6.9%

  131 → 140

• Wages

  +3.8%

  £4,990,003 → £5,181,975

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers