CRANBROOK SCHOOL ACADEMY TRUST

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Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Affinia (Orpington)

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“After making appropriate enquiries, the Governing Body has a reasonable expectation that the Academy has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason, the Governing Body continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the Financial Statements.”

Significant events

• “The Academy is part of the the West Kent Single Academy Trust Alliance (WKSATA).”
• “Students secured places at a range of top universities with several successful Oxbridge applications as well as a number of successful applications for vets and medics.”
• “There is a small but growing trend of Cranbrook students being accepted at US universities and this is likely to grow in the coming years.”
• “The co-curricular programme continues to be a real strength at Cranbrook.”
• “Careers has been rejuvenated under new leadership and developing our careers education is a significant priority for the school.”
• “It has been another year of wonderful school trips including: Malaga, Lanzarote, Battle-fields of France & Belgium, Dorset, Canterbury, London.”
• “We have also made greater efforts to welcome visiting speakers to the school including Katie Lam MP, Bishop Rose, Lord Peter Lilley, Vijay Rangarajan, Ian Hislop, Lord Moore.”
• “We have new leadership of the curriculum and a renewed focus on curriculum development.”
• “We have also made real progress in the utilisation of AI in teaching.”
• “Boarding is critical to the Cranbrook ethos and the boarding community celebrated a fantastic Ofsted visit which rated the provision as Outstanding in all areas.”
• “The pastoral re-structure took root during this academic year and has successfully bonded day and boarding houses and the changes have proved highly beneficial.”
• “Mobile phones were fully banned across the school site and, after a few teething problems, the move has made a big difference to the life of Cranbrook students.”
• “Our strategic priorities for the academic year 2024-25 focussed mainly on the following: Improving our IT infrastructure and provision - to enhance the learning experience for all students; Enhancing our social media presence to support our marketing and to celebrate everything that is good about Cranbrook; Cultivating additional income streams and improving our fundraising including the highly successful Cranbrook Gives; Preparing to accommodate an additional 30 students into year 9 following an appeal to the adjudicator.”

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

Filings

2

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +3.2%

  £9,874,000 → £10,194,000

• Cash

  -6%

  £1,739,000 → £1,634,000

• Net assets

  -33%

  £619,000 → £415,000

• Employees

  -6.5%

  201 → 188

• Operating profit

  -229.6%

  £98,000 → -£127,000

• Profit before tax

  -254.5%

  £88,000 → -£136,000

• Wages

  +2%

  £5,300,000 → £5,405,000

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