Secondary Education: Mansfield
(asked on 28th February 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of secondary school school places that will be required in Mansfield in each year to 2025.
The Government has committed £7 billion of funding for school places between 2015 and 2021, on top of investment in the free schools programme. The school system is on track to create 1 million places this decade, the largest increase in school capacity for at least two generations.
The Department collects pupil forecasts, existing school capacities, and plans to deliver additional school places from each local authority via the annual school capacity survey. Information from local authorities, together with information on centrally funded projects to add places, such as new free schools, is used to produce estimates of the future need for school places.
The latest available estimates show that the 20 secondary planning areas within Nottinghamshire may require an additional 997 secondary school places by 2023/24 in order to meet forecast demand, of which Mansfield Secondary planning area may require 82 additional secondary school places.
The latest published data held relates to the position in the 2016/17 academic year and includes secondary forecasts to 2023/24. Data for the 2017/2018 academic year are due to be published on 28 March 2019.
Basic need allocations are based upon data supplied by local authorities themselves so there should be no shortfall between the number of places local authorities report they need to create, and the number the Department is funding.
Table 1:
Forecast secondary places needed in Nottinghamshire by planning area (modelled estimates)[1], [2]
Secondary Planning Area | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 |
Nottinghamshire Total | 375 | 418 | 628 | 676 | 891 | 897 | 997 |
Arnold Secondary | 16 | 34 | 76 | 111 | 95 | 141 | 139 |
Broxtowe North Secondary | 3 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Broxtowe South Secondary | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Carlton Secondary | 57 | 111 | 114 | 115 | 167 | 187 | 220 |
East Leake Secondary | 0 | 28 | 27 | 27 | 26 | 26 | 0 |
Gedling Secondary | 33 | 50 | 88 | 68 | 111 | 129 | 131 |
Harworth/Bircotes Secondary | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Hucknall Secondary | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Kirkby/Sutton Secondary | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mansfield Secondary | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 74 | 35 | 82 |
Newark Secondary | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rainworth Secondary | 53 | 68 | 89 | 103 | 141 | 150 | 175 |
Retford Secondary | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rushcliffe East Secondary | 3 | 15 | 47 | 87 | 92 | 45 | 14 |
Rushcliffe Secondary | 22 | 53 | 73 | 86 | 108 | 100 | 91 |
Selston Secondary | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Southwell Secondary | 17 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Warsop Secondary | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
West Bridgford Secondary | 169 | 47 | 77 | 71 | 61 | 22 | 17 |
Worksop Secondary | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 63 | 119 |
Figures are rounded to the nearest whole number; therefore do not add up to the sum total.
[1] The data provide a snapshot in time at 1 May 2017. Currently, most forecasts continue to increase into the future whereas plans to create places is generally reported more strongly in the immediate future, since only places for which there are firm plans are included. The places needed will therefore naturally grow with time.
[2] Further information can be found in the place planning tables at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-capacity-academic-year-2016-to-2017.