Learning Schools Trust

The Learning Schools Trust (LST) was a charitable trust which operated Kunskapsskolan sponsored academy schools in the United Kingdom between 2010 and 2016.

LST operated four academy schools in England: Hampton Academy^[1] and Twickenham Academy^[2] in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, Ipswich Academy in Ipswich, Suffolk,^[3] and the Elizabeth Woodville School (EWS) in Northamptonshire.^[4]

History

LST was incorporated in February 2010 when it took over the running of its first three schools.^[5][6][7] The Elizabeth Woodville School became an LST Academy on 1 December 2012.^[8]

In March 2014 the trust was one of 14 organisations prevented from taking on new schools.^[9] The following year, the Department for Education removed Ipswich Academy from LST's trusteeship.^[10] Hampton Academy and Twickenham Academy both left the Learning Schools Trust at the end of the 2015 school year.^[11] The trust ceased operation in 2016 and was dissolved in 2020.^[12][13]