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Secondary Education: Mansfield

Answer

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.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

227164

Session

2017-19

Subjects

Admissions Secondary education Mansfield

Contains statistics

Yes

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