ST MARY'S CHURCH OF ENGLAND 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

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

MA Partners Audit LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“After making appropriate enquiries, the Board of Trustees has a reasonable expectation that the 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 Trustees looked at joining the new Elveden Schools Trust during early 2024, but ultimately decided this was not a suitable match for our school.”
• “Summer term 2025 Year 6 SATs results showed a dip from the previous year. These results were as expected, the previous Year 5 cohort who entered Year 6 this year were a particularly weak cohort.”
• “The continuing increase in SEND of the pupil cohort, especially those with very high needs, is putting increasing pressure on finances as Suffolk High Needs tariffs do not fully cover the cost of meeting these needs. Despite this, the cost of providing additional SEND support ran at an estimated loss of £75k.”

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

Filings

5

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

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

  +26.5%

  £2,417,188 → £3,058,778

• Cash

  +52.6%

  £436,094 → £665,357

• Net assets

  +23.1%

  £2,302,270 → £2,833,473

• Employees

  -3.1%

  65 → 63

• Operating profit

  +3,458.8%

  -£17,572 → £590,203

• Profit before tax

  +1,886.1%

  £31,941 → £634,382

• Wages

  +2.7%

  £1,456,532 → £1,496,410

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