The new Wisbech Academy is welcoming its first pupils this week.
The school will be run by the Brooke Weston Trust, which also runs the Thomas Clarkson Academy in the town.
It will be accommodated initially on the site of the Thomas Clarkson Academy. The new permanent school building is expected to open in 2026.
A funding agreement to enable it to open in time for the start of term was signed in June by the Department for Education (DfE), who will deliver the new school.
A total of 95 applications were received for places at the school, and all 95 have been offered a place.
Cambridgeshire County Council advised parents in March that any child would be able to make an application to the school under a separate admissions round run by Brooke Weston Trust.
Following the signing of the funding agreement, the council and Brooke Weston contacted families whose children had been allocated a school place for September outside Wisbech to offer them an alternative place at the new academy.
Cllr Bryony Goodliffe, Chair of Cambridgeshire County Council’s Children and Young People Committee said: “I am delighted that the new school is opening in time for the start of the new academic year. This is excellent news for Wisbech and its young people. I am particularly grateful for the persistence and hard work of council officers – in partnership with the Brooke Weston Trust and the DfE – which has enabled this to happen. I wish the new school staff and students all the best in the coming year.”
