Probably of little help to you but I know of two School projects:
Truro School built an Evans VP-2 in the late 1970s which certainly flew.
At my Alma Mater, King Edwards Witley, in 1981/82 several of my peers were starting construction of a canard light plane called the Kestrel as part of an A Level course. IIRC, this had been designed by one of the masters as part of his course at Cranfield IT. Don't think it was ever completed let alone flew...