The pilot project, which will be established on the site of Medway Secure Training Centre (STC) in Kent, had been due to launch in autumn 2020.
But the Ministry of Justice has told CYP Now that due to "a number of complex issues", it is now unlikely that it will be ready to open by then.
Details of the delay were revealed by the organisation contracted to run the secure school - Christian youth charity the Oasis Charitable Trust.
In the November edition of the Association of Youth Offending Team Managers' newsletter, Steve Chalke, founder of Oasis said the establishment will not be open until 2021.
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