School Organisation Plan 2020-2025
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School Organisation Plan 2020-2025 September 2020 School Organisation Plan 2020-2025 1 1. Introduction This document sets out the London Borough of Hackney’s School Organisation Plan from 2020 to 2025. Local authorities have a statutory duty to ensure there is a sufficient number of school places for pupils and that places are planned effectively. In Hackney, this is managed by Hackney Education (HE), the Council’s education service. Between 2007 and 2014 Hackney experienced significant and unprecedented growth in demand for primary school reception places with very high rolls between 2012 and 2016. This trend was replicated in London and across the country. In response, local authorities created additional school places to cater for the increased demand. Furthermore, new school places were created through the government’s Academy and Free School programmes. Since 2015 however, demand for reception places across London has decreased again year on year. The reason why rolls are falling is unclear, but it is thought to be a combination of changes to welfare benefits, rising rents and the possible effects of Brexit. Falling reception rolls has led to a significant number of surplus reception places, which has impacted on the efficient running and financial stability of some schools. The HE School Place Planning Group (SPP) monitors school rolls, school roll projections and the financial health of schools, taking steps, where appropriate, to implement school organisation changes across the borough in consultation with other London Borough of Hackney departments. At a later date, this plan will feed into the Council’s Capital Programme and Asset Management Strategy. This plan provides schools, governing bodies and the public with: ● an overview of the educational provision on offer in Hackney ● a summary of current pupil numbers and projected demand ● the factors considered by Hackney Education when determining the need to increase or reduce school places ● a summary of planned place reductions up until September 2021 This plan is reviewed and updated annually with the latest school roll, projections and any further proposed changes to school organisation. Please note: The Hackney Childcare Sufficiency Audit is outlined fully in a separate document and can be downloaded from: https://www.hackneyservicesforschools.co.uk/extranet/hackney-childcare-sufficiency-assessment A summary of the main issues in planning Early Years places is outlined in Appendix 1. The Hackney Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) strategy can be found at: https://www.hackneylocaloffer.co.uk/kb5/hackney/localoffer/advice.page?id=WaZA5W4YiPQ HACKNEY COUNCIL HACKNEY EDUCATION School Organisation Plan 2020-2025 2 2. Education provision in Hackney The range and number of schools in Hackney is shown in Table 1. In addition to the provision shown in Table 1, there are a significant number of independent schools (mainly Orthodox Jewish) in Hackney. Place planning for independent schools is not undertaken by HE. These schools sit outside the maintained sector. Table 1. Education provision Nursery Schools (2) Community 2 Primary (58 schools) Community 38 Voluntary Aided 14 Free school 3 Academy 3 Secondary (16 schools) Academy 8 Voluntary Aided 5 Community School 2 Free school 1 Special schools (3) ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder and SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty - 4-19 yrs 1 SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty, VI - Visual Impairment, OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability, HI - Hearing Impairment, SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication, ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder, SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health, MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment, PD - Physical Disability, MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty, SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty and PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty - 3-19 yrs 1 Complex and inter-related special needs - 11-17 yrs 1 Resourced maintained provision (6) Autism 4 Language 2 SEMH (due to open in September 2020/January 2021) PRU/Alternative Provision (2) PRU (New Regents College) 1 HACKNEY COUNCIL HACKNEY EDUCATION School Organisation Plan 2020-2025 3 AP Academy 1 Sixth Forms (13) Sixth Forms (operational) 13 Colleges (2) BSix Sixth Form College New City College Hackney Table 2 and 3 give a list of primary/nursery and secondary schools respectively, and their Published Admission Numbers (PANs) for the academic years 2020/21 and 2021/22. Table 2. Nursery and Primary schools – Published Admission Numbers 2020/21 and 2021/22 S chool Published Admission Number (PAN) 20/21 21/22 Comet Nursery School 60* 60* Wentworth Nursery School 60* 60* Baden Powell Primary School 30 30 Benthal Primary School 60 60 Berger Primary School 60 60 Betty Layward Primary School 60 60 Colvestone Primary School 30 30 Daubeney Primary School 90 90 De Beauvoir Primary School 30 30 Gainsborough Community Primary School 60 60 Gayhurst Community School 75 75 Grasmere Primary School 30 30 Grazebrook Primary School 60 60 Hackney New Primary School 50 50 Halley House School 30 30 Harrington Hill Primary School 60 60 Holmleigh Primary School 30 30 Holy Trinity CE Primary School 60 60 Hoxton Garden School 60 60 Jubilee School 60 60 Kingsmead Primary School 30 30 Lauriston Primary School 60 60 HACKNEY COUNCIL HACKNEY EDUCATION School Organisation Plan 2020-2025 4 London Fields Primary School 60 60 Lubavitch Junior Boys School 30 30 Lubavitch Ruth Lunzer Girls’ Primary School 30 30 Mandeville Primary School 60 60 Millfields Community School 90 90 Morningside Primary School 60 60 Mossbourne Parkside Academy 60 60 Mossbourne Riverside Academy 90 90 Nightingale Primary School 30 30 Northwold Primary School 60 60 Orchard Primary School 90 90 Our Lady & St. Joseph RC Primary School 30 30 Parkwood Primary School 30 30 Princess May Primary School 60 60 Queensbridge Primary School 60 60 Randal Cremer Primary School 60 60 Rushmore Primary School 60 60 Sebright School 60 60 Shacklewell Primary School 60 60 Shoreditch Park Primary School 60 60 Simon Marks Jewish Primary School 30 30 Sir Thomas Abney School 60 60 Southwold School 60 60 Springfield Community Primary School 30 30 St. Dominic’s Catholic Primary School 60 60 St. John & St. James CE Primary School 30 30 St. John of Jerusalem CE Primary School 30 30 St. John the Baptist CE Primary School 60 60 St. Mary’s CE Primary School 30 30 St. Matthias CE Primary School 30 30 St. Monica’s RC Primary School 30 30 St. Paul's with St. Michael's CE Primary School 30 30 St. Scholastica RC Primary School 30 30 The Olive School 90 90 Thomas Fairchild Community School 60 60 HACKNEY COUNCIL HACKNEY EDUCATION School Organisation Plan 2020-2025 5 Tyssen Community Primary School 60 60 William Patten Primary School 60 60 Woodberry Down Community Primary School 90 90 Total Places 3035 3035 *full time equivalent places Table 3. Secondary schools – Published Admission Numbers 2020/21 and 2021/22 * In September 2019, Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls’ School ceased to be part of the secondary transfer process as pupils transfer in year 5. HACKNEY COUNCIL HACKNEY EDUCATION School Organisation Plan 2020-2025 6 3. Primary planning Local authorities (LAs) have a statutory duty to ensure there is a sufficient supply of school places for pupils resident in their area. This document addresses the sufficiency of mainstream places in Hackney. As noted in the introduction above, provision for pupils with Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND), is addressed in a separate plan. A child is of ‘compulsory school age’ on the 1st January, 1st April or 1st September following their 5th birthday. For example, children becoming 5 years old between 1st January and 31st March are of compulsory school age at the beginning of the term after 1st April. Pupils are required to be in full-time education when they become of compulsory school age. 3.1 Primary census In 2007, Hackney, like most other London boroughs, experienced a sudden and dramatic increase in the demand for reception places. In response to this unprecedented surge, HE rolled out a primary expansion plan to ensure that it continued to meet its statutory duty to secure a sufficient number of school places for Hackney resident pupils. The expansion programme saw the creation of 330 permanent primary places as well as a raft of bulge classes between 2009 and 2014. These additional places were created at the same time as the Department for Education (DfE) approved four new free schools/academies to open between 2013 and 2016: The Olive School (90 places), Mossbourne Riverside Academy (90 places), Halley House Free School (60 places), and Hackney New Primary School (50 places). These new schools created a further 290 unplanned reception places. Halley House has since reduced to 30 places each year. The number of primary pupils on roll in mainstream primary schools in Hackney between the academic years 2002/03 and 2019/20 (January census) is shown in Table 4 below. Table 4. Primary rolls 2002/03 – 2019/20 HACKNEY COUNCIL HACKNEY EDUCATION School Organisation Plan 2020-2025 7 Table 4 shows that the number of reception children on roll (the second column) increased from 2007 to 2012 with some fluctuation, and saw a steady increase between 2013 and 2015. From 2016 to 2018 reception demand decreased, with a slight increase seen in 2019. The rate of attrition (the number of children who leave) as the cohorts move through to the end of the primary phase can be seen from the diagonal coloured cells and the last two columns. In January 2020 (census of the 2019/20 academic year), there were 2599 reception pupils and 3035 reception places available, giving rise to 436 surplus reception places (14.4%). It should be noted that the current number of surplus places does not take into account the reduction in reception places in some schools in 2019/20, as described in Section 3.3 (‘Falling rolls’). This significant fall in reception numbers (a decrease of 284 pupils from 2014 to 2018) as shown in Table 4, is not unique to Hackney.