School Capacity and Surplus Places

Every year the Department for Education (DfE) asks local authorities with responsibility for education to provide a variety of data to enable Government to predict funding requirements in future years. The Local Authority returns an annual report on the capacity of maintained schools in Worcestershire and numbers of surplus places in those schools. Schools with more than 25% surplus and at least 30 spare places are identified and the Authority has to report what measures are being taken to reduce the level in each school named. The report also includes a forecast of future numbers on roll to assist with predicting shortfalls in school places.