But within a matter of months, the company behind the school faced a winding-up petition, entered an insolvency arrangement, underwent major ownership and management changes, stopped trading and eventually went into liquidation.
Newly filed insolvency documents have now revealed an estimated £1.7 million deficiency and that an attempt to rescue the business failed after new PAYE liabilities went unpaid.
There is still no complete public account of every decision which led to the closure, but company filings, insolvency documents, statements to parents and previous News & Star reporting provide an increasingly clear picture of what happened.
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