Ark

About Ark

Ark is an education charity that exists to make sure that all children, regardless of their background, have access to a great education and real choices in life. There are 30,000 students learning in our network of 39 schools. We’ve always believed that, with the right approach, every child has the potential to succeed. We work in the communities where we can make the biggest difference to children’s lives, and all our schools are non-selective. It works: our schools achieve great results – significantly outperforming national averages, especially when it comes to driving progress – the best measure for ‘closing the gap’.

Ark’s broad and committed team of nearly 3,000 staff includes teachers, education and school operation experts, governors and trustees, teaching assistants, early years carers and many more. We take what we learn in our schools to develop new solutions and approaches that we can share. Over the last two decades, we have developed and incubated more than 20 projects and programmes, supporting them to scale and achieve systemic impact on the life chances of all children. Over 350,000 children currently learn using an Ark curriculum and our Ark Start nurseries are demonstrating a new model for early years education that we hope will become the norm.