The National Union of Teachers (NUT) has said the figures are disappointing and demonstrated that the government’s move to open up academy status to more schools had failed.
NUT general secretary Christine Blower said: "It was a great mistake to rush through legislation enabling schools to change for the new term and the government is paying the price for their indecent haste. The academies programme has simply not caught the imagination of school leaders, teachers and parents."
However, Education Secretary Michael Gove said that the total represented record progress compared with the early stages of academies when only 17 opened in the first three years. The previous government oversaw the opening of 203 academies.
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