Pupil Place Plan 2019-2023
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Oxfordshire County Council Pupil Place Plan 2019-2023 November 2019 For 2019/20, the DfE has approved a change in primary school planning areas for Oxfordshire. Several of the previous planning areas have been subdivided into smaller areas, to support more detailed planning. This Pupil Place Plan is structured according to the larger areas – e.g. “Abingdon” – but comments have been made relating to the smaller sub-areas – e.g. “Abingdon East” – where appropriate. Pupil forecasts at sub-area level have been provided in the Annex. The list of schools starting on page 43 indicates which planning area each is in. The detailed data section starting on page 53 also indicates which planning area each is in, where this is relevant. Contents 1. INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................. 3 2. SCHOOL ORGANISATION CONTEXT ................................................................ 4 2.1 Oxfordshire’s education providers ...................................................................... 4 Early education ............................................................................................. 4 Primary education ......................................................................................... 4 Secondary education .................................................................................... 5 Specialist education ...................................................................................... 5 School planning areas ................................................................................... 6 2.2 Policies and legislation ....................................................................................... 6 Early education and childcare sufficiency ..................................................... 6 School places - local authorities’ statutory duties .......................................... 7 Policy on spare school places ....................................................................... 8 Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND)......................................... 8 Academies in Oxfordshire ............................................................................. 9 Oxfordshire Education Strategy .................................................................. 10 2.3 School organisation decision-making ............................................................... 11 Making changes to maintained (non-academy) schools ............................. 11 Making changes to academies .................................................................... 14 Routes to opening new schools .................................................................. 16 Oxfordshire’s process for opening new schools .......................................... 17 3. PLANNING FOR GROWTH ................................................................................. 20 3.1 Factors affecting demand for school places ..................................................... 21 Fertility and birth rates ................................................................................. 22 Migration ..................................................................................................... 23 Troop movements in and out of the county ................................................. 23 Housing growth ........................................................................................... 23 Changes in the pattern of participation in state school education ............... 25 Cross-boundary movement ......................................................................... 25 3.2 School forecast methodology ........................................................................... 26 Purpose ....................................................................................................... 26 Methodology ............................................................................................... 27 Housing development and pupil forecasting ............................................... 28 3.3 Expansion of school capacity ........................................................................... 29 Expansion of existing schools ..................................................................... 30 New schools ................................................................................................ 30 1 Major planned growth areas in Oxfordshire ................................................ 34 3.4 Funding of school growth ................................................................................. 35 Government funding .................................................................................... 35 Housing development and funding for school places .................................. 36 4. SCHOOL PLACE PLANNING DATA .................................................................... 38 Glossary ................................................................................................................. 39 School year groups................................................................................................. 42 Alphabetical list of primary schools......................................................................... 43 Alphabetical list of secondary schools .................................................................... 52 5. ANALYSIS OF SCHOOL PLACES BY PLANNING AREA……………………….. ..53 6. SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL PROVISION……………………………………………..157 Specialist provision across Oxfordshire – overview…………………………………158 Special schools and pupil referal unit…………………………………………………159 ANNEX: Full pupil forecasts by planning area and year……………………………...162 For further information about school place planning, in the first instance contact the School Organisation & Planning team: [email protected] 2 1. INTRODUCTION Oxfordshire County Council sees its democratic mandate as having regard for the educational outcomes for all Oxfordshire children and young people in state funded education, regardless of the status of the provider institutions. The county council has a statutory duty to ensure that sufficient places are available within their area for every child of school age whose parents wish them to have one; to promote diversity, parental choice and high educational standards; to ensure fair access to educational opportunity; and to help fulfill every child’s educational potential. We also have a responsibility to ensure, as far as reasonably practicable, that there are sufficient childcare places to ensure that families can: a) access the funded early education entitlements for their child; b) take up, or remain in work; or c) undertake education or training, which could reasonably lead to work. The county council also has a duty to respond to any representations from parents who are not satisfied with the provision of schools in the local area. This could be regarding the size, type, location or quality of school provision. Since 2011, new providers of school places have been able to establish state-funded free schools outside of the local authority school planning process, and now all new schools are deemed to be free schools. There are also a growing number of schools that have converted to become academies, which are also independent of local authority control. School places are no longer, therefore, solely provided by the county council, and the council must work with these other providers to ensure that the need for school places is met. However, the county council has a unique responsibility to make sure there are enough school and childcare places available for local children and young people. No other local or national body shares the duty to secure sufficient primary and secondary schools. Although there has been no statutory requirement to publish a School Organisation Plan since 2004, it is considered good practice to produce a plan related to pupil place planning to clearly set out the framework for, and approach towards, the provision of places. This Pupil Place Plan shows local communities, and those interested in their development, how we expect school provision to change over the next few years. It brings together information from a range of sources and sets out the issues the county council will face in meeting its statutory duties for providing nursery and school places up to 2023 and beyond. The Plan includes present and predicted future pupil numbers on roll, together with information about birth rates, school capacity, and new housing. The Plan sets out proposed changes in the number of school places available over the next year and it suggests where other changes may be necessary in the future. The Plan also sets out our policies on school organisation and the statutory framework for making changes such as opening, closing or enlarging schools. 3 2. SCHOOL ORGANISATION CONTEXT Oxfordshire is a county which is experiencing rapid growth and this is having a significant impact on school planning. Having an up-to-date Pupil Place Plan provides an essential framework for effective planning within this context. An updated plan also provides key partners with trends and data to inform their future decision- making. This Plan is updated and approved annually. Oxfordshire is a more rural county than South East England as a whole, with one third of the population living in rural areas; primary education in particular plays a critical role in community cohesion and supporting both rural and urban communities. 20% of Oxfordshire’s total population is aged 18 or under.