Criteria for Schools
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Future Leaders operates in challenging schools to achieve our mission to address educational disadvantage.
To achieve our mission to address educational disadvantage, Future Leaders work in challenging maintained secondary schools or academies which meet one or more of the below criteria:
- More than 50% of pupils live in the most deprived 30% of IDACI (Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index) areas
- 15% or more pupils are eligible for Free School Meals
- GCSE results fall in the bottom 30% of the national distribution
- Engaged in a formal partnership or federation with another school that meets at least one of the criteria above
If your school is suitable for Future Leaders, there are a number of ways in which you can be involved with the programme. Please click on the links to the left to find out more about employing a Future Leader or if you would like to nominate and support an existing member of staff.
If you would like to discuss your school’s particular context and need to find out the best way to be involved, please contact our schools' team: