A grammar school overclaimed more than £1.5 million in government maintenance funding and then provided false information to the Department for Education about the projects, an investigation has found.
Queen Elizabeth Grammar School Penrith in Cumbria has been issued with a government notice to improve by the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) and ordered to repay the money.
It is also due to be rebrokered into a nearby multi-academy trust.
It follows a probe into the school, a single-academy trust, prompted by allegations that it failed to return surplus condition improvement funding (CIF) to the DfE and spent it on other projects.
