Trinity Academy is a

coeducational Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was more common up to ...

Free School, established in 2014. It is located in the

Brixton Brixton is an area of South London, part of the London Borough of Lambeth, England. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. Brixton experienced a rapid rise in population during the 19th century ...

area of the London Borough of

Lambeth Lambeth () is a district in South London, England, which today also gives its name to the (much larger) London Borough of Lambeth. Lambeth itself was an ancient parish in the county of Surrey. It is situated 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Charin ...

, England, and caters for pupils aged 11 to 18. The school was judged to be Good by

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in its first inspection in May 2017. Although Trinity Academy is not formally designated as a

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, it has a

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ethos. One of the school's founders, former

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broadcaster Dennis Sewell, has criticized the

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, for refusing to open any formally designated Catholic free schools due to

the 50% rule The 50% rule or 50% cap in English faith school admissions introduced in 2010, stipulating that where newly established academies with a religious character are oversubscribed, at least 50% of their places would be "open places", i.e. allocated w ...

which limits the number of places that can be reserved for Catholics. Since 2017, the school has been housed in a building next to South Bank University Sixth Form.

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