The Woodard Corporation has schools in both the independent (fee paying) and maintained sectors.
[1] The flagship school of the Woodard Corporation is Lancing College, founded by Nathaniel Woodard in 1848, while the largest school is The Littlehampton Academy, with over 1,500 students.
From 1 January 2014, Broadwater Manor School in Worthing was also owned by Lancing College and this group.
'... till the Church educates and trains up the middle classes, she can never effectually educate the poor' Woodard Schools are the lead sponsors of a number of schools in the English Academy system.
Woodard Schools push for a strong religious teaching within, with an emphasis on biblical studies.