Holland Park’s future facing pivotal day today –at meeting in private with the community’s favoured solution not even under consideration by Department for Education advisers

The highest-profile academy controversy currently on the landscape in England is being provisionally decided in private today, with the overwhelming choice of the community for the future of the school not on the table for consideration by the government’s advisers.

Holland Park School, in Kensington, West London, is on the agenda for a recommendation at Department for Education's snappily-named North-West London South Central Advisory Board, chaired by Dame Kate Dethridge, the regional schools commissioner.

The board is due to make a recommendation to Dame Kate as to which trust Holland Park, which has had an extremely troubled year after allegations first surfaced that it suffered from a “toxic” working environment, gets handed to.

Over the past five months, after a newly-constituted governing body announced out of the blue that England’s largest academy chain was its preferred choice to take over Holland Park, the community seems to have registered in just about every way possible its favouring of an alternative solution.

This would see Holland Park, which is currently run as a single academy trust, joining a local multi-academy trust established with nearby Kensington Aldridge Academy (KAA).