WADEBRIDGE SCHOOL

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  5 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

Griffin

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“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 operated as an Academy for pupils aged 11 to 16 serving a catchment area in Wadebridge and Padstow and surrounding villages. It has a planned capacity of 1,050 and had a roll of 1,061 in the school census on October 2024.”
• “The Academy Trust through its Articles has indemnified its Trustees to the fullest extent permissible by law. During the period the Academy Trust also purchased and maintained liability insurance for its Trustees.”
• “The schools ongoing self-evaluation identifies key priorities which are articulated in the School Development Plan, a two year 'living' document; two of these priorities were reiterated in the Ofsted inspection that took place in April 2025. This inspection confirmed that the school's overall effectiveness grade of Good remains unchanged.”
• “The previously identified pressure on 'Wiggles' (the academy's work place nursery) has now improved significantly with the operational changes that have been made and the additional early years funding from government. In the past year the nursery has continued to make progress which has resulted in making a healthy financial contribution to the school.”
• “Currently, numbers on roll are stable; in some year groups we are oversubscribed and are continuing to see an increase in student numbers. Furthermore, in September 2021 Trustees agreed with the local authority to increase PAN due to pressure on student numbers in North Cornwall for year 8 and 9. This bulge in numbers has now passed through the school resulting in per pupil funding dropping for 2025/26.”

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

Filings

11

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

2

last 12 months

Officers resigned

5

last 12 months

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

• Turnover

  +11%

  £7,808,250 → £8,664,035

• Cash

  -33.6%

  £525,712 → £349,034

• Net assets

  -4.2%

  £10,618,484 → £10,177,490

• Employees

  +0.7%

  147 → 148

• Wages

  +5.6%

  £4,794,803 → £5,063,780

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