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The Northern Education Trust is a large multi-academy trust operating in the North of England. It has brought a one-size-fits-all approach to its schools. The proportion of students who attained a pass in English and maths GCSErose from 32% in 2017 to 58% in 2019, at the expensse of excluding a large proportion of its students.

Criticisms
Questions were raised about the trust's approach to its pupils when it was revealed that they had suspended over 50% of their pupils from Red House Academy in 2017-2018 and 40% of its pupils from North Shore Academy against a national average of 2.3%. Students were given fixed term suspensions for trivial reasons such as choice of jewellery and having eyebrows that were unnaturally dark.

The proportion of students at Red House academy who attained a pass in English and maths rose from 32% in 2017 to 58% in 2019.

Academies
, there are a total of 21 academies affiliated with Northern Education Trust: 11 primary academies and 10 secondary academies.

Secondary Academies

 * The Blyth Academy
 * Dyke House Sports and Technology College
 * Freebrough Academy
 * The Grangefield Academy
 * Kearsley Academy
 * Kirk Balk Academy
 * Manor Community Academy
 * North Shore Academy
 * Red House Academy
 * Thorp Academy

Primary Academies

 * Abbey Park Academy
 * Badger Hill Academy
 * The Ferns Primary Academy
 * Frederick Nattrass Primary Academy
 * Hilton Primary Academy
 * Merlin Top Primary Academy
 * Mount Pellon Primary Academy
 * Norton Primary Academy
 * The Oak Tree Academy
 * Ryecroft Primary Academy
 * Whitecliffe Academy

Northern Alliance of Trusts
The Conservative Education minister, Lord Agnew, in response to comments that academies are no better at managing deprived schools than the Local education authority they replaced, urged smaller academy trusts to team up to create bigger academy trusts. The Northern Alliance is the first formal partnership of its kind between larger chains.

The Northern Alliance of Trusts is made up of eight members:


 * Northern Education Trust
 * Astrea Academy Trust
 * Delta Academies Trust
 * Dixons Academies Trust
 * Horizons Specialist Academy Trust
 * North East Learning Trust
 * Outwood Grange Academies Trust
 * WISE Academies

The academy trusts continue to act as independent legal entities, but were sharing resource for the good of its members.

It receives a public money grant from the Strategic School Improvement Fund.It is working on common procurement, leadership standards, fund raising and to work on recruitment and retention of teachers.