Small Yorkshire school helping some of most needy pupils faces axe

Life chances will be blighted says Grove Academy head amid slated 83% funding cut for school serving excluded young

A tiny school with only 31 pupils, which has turned around the fortunes of some of the most challenging and vulnerable pupils in North Yorkshire, is facing closure.

The Grove Academy, in Harrogate, a pupil referral unit for mainly excluded pupils, was rated outstanding by Ofsted in 2015. But it has become a casualty of the education funding cuts affecting children across the UK.

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