However, there are so far only about 100 primary academies open.
In less than three years Lorraine Clarke, a former police detective sergeant now in her first headship, has turned around the 500-pupil Ark Blacklands primary academy from Ofsted's "inadequate" to "outstanding" – with the same staff.
Help from local businesses While Liss and Milwards enjoy rural scenery, pupils at Cliffdale primary academy, Portsmouth, felt their concrete courtyard looked "sad and grey" and needed a change.
Staff at another primary academy, in Mitcham, south London, are asking questions after a speaker from the US addressed teachers despite, it is claimed, budget cuts that reduced school trips for pupils.
The Burlington Danes primary academy in west London, part of the successful Burlington Danes academy run by the Ark academy chain, is one of several to delay opening from 2014 to 2015 because of accommodation problems.
Some 18 teachers are revealed as having left Harris primary academy Benson, also in south London.
To help you ace it, we spoke to three experts: Carolyn Ellis-Gage, vice-principal of Norwich Road primary academy in Thetford; Steve Dixon, a former teacher and regional director at recruitment agency Servoca Education; and an anonymous assistant principal from a secondary academy in south London.
Mossbourne, (primary academy) in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, east London.
But a bid by Oasis Education to continue running the primary academy was rejected by the Department for Education.
It was the moment Labour switched its focus from primary to secondary schools; when specialist schools and academies, trust schools, co-operative schools, federations and even parent-run free schools, which the Conservatives are proposing, began to replace the comp.
