Will primary schools make good Academies?

Today it was announced that application for Acadamey status would be welcomed from any current state school.

Goddard Park Primary school was the first to get Academy status well before the announcement that an Academy status opportunity will be a possibility across the whole school spectrum.

'... Goddard Park was top-rated at its recent Ofsted inspection, and it is capitalising on that in a bid to become one of the first – perhaps the first – primary school to become an academy in September under Michael Gove's Academies Act, which was rushed through parliament last week.   ...application has been ...approved: the pressure is now on to get every last bit of administrative nitty-gritty sorted over the summer holiday so the school can fully opt out of local authority control and be launched as an academy on 1s September.

It's no small task. Business manager Fiona Godrey shows me a "to-do" list that runs to several close-typed A4 pages.
Although there is a list of frequently asked questions on the Department for Education website, she says: "It's a bit all over the place...'

part of a report in The Guardian

To be first in a business enterprise such as opting out of local authority support, standing alone, making your own business mistakes would be pretty scary. I hope those who may follow Goddard Park down the road of independence will be able to learn from their experience, avoiding any common pitfalls and make a great success of such an enterprise.
I would interested in any comments about what factors would influence the success or failure of taking such a step

- who knows our primary school may be following in their footsteps...