HIGHAMS PARK ACADEMY TRUST

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  3 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

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

Buzzacott 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

• “A falling pupil roll. This is highly unlikely in respect of Year 7 admissions, unless there is a drop in student numbers in the main feeder schools. This is despite major building works that are currently being undertaken. The School continues to be a popular choice amongst parents. However, there have been some in-year fluctuations in year groups 8 to 11 leading the school to forecast slightly less students than 240 across these year groups.”
• “6th Form admissions are much more volatile and difficult to predict as there are growing numbers of alternative 6th Form providers in the vicinity. However, the 6th form remains popular and remains the largest 6th form provider in the Local Authority.”
• “Staff recruitment and retention. This is a National problem but the school's vacancies attract a reasonably healthy level of interest and applications. The school remains fully staffed with subject specialists teaching all their own subjects. We had only 7 teaching staff who left this year, two of whom retired after many years of service.”
• “There has been an increase in the number of pupils with Education and Health Care Plans (EHCP). The financial impact of meeting each child's needs is significant compared to the available top up funding allocated by the government.”

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

Filings

8

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

3

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +7.5%

  £11,988,506 → £12,892,769

• Cash

  -19.3%

  £1,628,465 → £1,313,821

• Net assets

  -27.2%

  £15,122,821 → £11,005,607

• Employees

  -1.3%

  229 → 226

• Wages

  +3.4%

  £7,486,551 → £7,743,193

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