Kings Science Academy (now known as Dixons Kings Academy) was one of the first free schools to open, in 2011. The school and its headteacher, Sajid Hussain Raza, were praised personally by then Prime Minister David Cameron, and the school was one of Education Secretary Michael Gove's flagship free schools. 

However, a bad Ofsted report, and then a 5 year saga of financial investigations which culminated in fraud charges for the headteacher and four other staff members.

The school was also involved in a controversy involving Alan Lewis, a former Conservative Party vice-chairman, who leased the land the school is built on for nearly £6m, and was named as chair of governors, which he later denied. 

The school has been taken over by Dixons, another academy chain which runs a number of other schools in Yorkshire. 

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