Mark Neild is CEO of the Success for All Educational Trust with overall responsibility to the Department for Education for the quality of the education that Success for All students receive.

Mark is a Maths teacher by training. He studied Maths at the University of Edinburgh and chose to pursue teaching after taking on various part-time roles in care work and learning disability support in his teens. These experiences laid the foundations for a career spent mainly working with disadvantaged young people, latterly as Deputy CEO and Director of Secondary Education at the David Ross Education Trust, where many of the secondary schools Mark oversaw were in economically deprived areas. Prior to this he was Deputy CEO at Unity School Partnership, and before that he held several senior roles at Inspiration trust. Mark lives in Cambridgeshire with his wife and daughter, and two pampered rescue dogs.

Central to Mark’s approach to school leadership is the belief that teachers must hold high expectations of all young people, whatever their background, to help those students make the most of their educational opportunities. When standards of teaching, learning and behaviour are high, and school offers a challenging but supportive environment, every young person has the chance to flourish.

As CEO Mark leads the Trust, which comprises three secondary schools – Redden Court School, The Royal Liberty School, and Sanders Draper School – and two primary-phase schools, Rise Park Infants and Rise Park Junior.  Our schools are all located geographically within the London Borough Havering in North East London. They range in size from three to seven forms of entry with an overall current student number of approximately 3,000. As a Trust we are keen to grow and work with new schools, recognising the opportunities to deliver better outcomes for young people through strategic collaboration in a multi-academy setting, whilst recognising the uniqueness of each school.