Agenda Item 31.1 Growth Fund Strategic Update: Additional information requested by Forum members 1) Independent and grammar school losses over the last 5 years Response: Independent school data only relates to children who were originally offered a Wokingham state sector school, but whose application was withdrawn at a later date. Data is only provided for 2020, because the data is collected as “snap shot” data from the live admissions system, and does not collect information such as gender, as this is not normally relevant to research for place sufficiency work. Note though: Parents often refuse previously allocated places without the final school being recorded. In some cases this will be because there has been some other change in circumstances (e.g. an unplanned relocation to another council’s area). Many children were already in the independent sector. Parents may have made “insurance” applications or unsuccessful applications for preferred schools (e.g. Reading Grammars). No data is collected on children whose parents have made no application for a state secondary school for them. Definite “losses”: Original Offer 870 872 Grand Total The Emmbrook School S 16 17 Waingels College 11 11 The Forest School 8 8 St Crispin's School 7 7 The Holt School 6 6 The Piggott School 6 6 Maiden Erlegh School S S Bohunt School Wokingham S S The Bulmershe School S S Reading School S S Edgbarrow Secondary School S S Kendrick Girls' Grammar School S S Richard Lander School S S Maiden Erlegh School in Reading S S Bournemouth School for Girls S S Oakbank S S Grand Total 2 72 74 Likely losses (withdrawls without the final school being declared): Original Offer 866 867 870 (RBC) 872 (WBC) (blank) Grand Total The Emmbrook School S S 30 1 33 The Forest School S S 20 1 24 The Holt School 22 1 23 Maiden Erlegh School S 16 2 20 19 Original Offer 866 867 870 (RBC) 872 (WBC) (blank) Grand Total The Bulmershe School 9 10 19 Waingels College S 16 17 Bohunt School Wokingham 16 16 The Piggott School 15 15 St Crispin's School 14 14 Oakbank S S S S Kendrick Girls' Grammar School S S Edgbarrow Secondary School S S Yateley School S S Herschel Grammar School S S Reading School S S Richard Lander School S S Maiden Erlegh School in Reading S S Bournemouth School for Girls S S Grand Total S S 17 175 6 201 Grammar school offers are normally made in the initial round: Allocated Total Herschel Grammar School 30 John Hampden Grammar School S Kendrick Girls' Grammar School 46 Reading School 67 St Bernard's Convent Grammar Aided S School St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar S School Grand Total 150 2. Numbers in current WBC schools, by year group since 2010 when the last strategy document was produced? Verses numbers predicted in the document? Summary data is provided below and in the attached spreadsheet, with rolls from 2017, the date the last strategy was prepared. This can be read here: https://www.wokingham.gov.uk/schools-and-education/school-information-and- services/planning-new-school-places/ Variance Summary Data With new housing adjustment Without new housing adjustment Year Roll Projection Variance %ge Projection Variance %ge variance variance 2017 /18 10,564 10,528 - 36 0% 10,422 - 142 -1% 2018/19 10,926 10,947 21 0% 10,736 - 190 -2% 2019/20 11,200 11,470 270 2% 11,156 - 44 0% 2020/21 11,676 12,087 411 4% 11,670 - 6 0% 20 As can be seen the roll and actual projections diverge at approximately 1% per annum. 3. current capacity in all schools per year group yr R to 13 which will help planning for future school development and post 16 requirements There is no official measure of year group capacity. The statutory measure is Net Capacity, but this only applies to maintained schools. It is noted that the capacities of many schools have changed as a result of building works post Academy conversion and it will be important to understand school capacity with the assistance of school leaders before the next iteration of the secondary strategy is confirmed. The DfE’s guidance to local authorities is that we should record the capacity stated in the Funding Agreement, but in many cases this is clearly out of date. A variety of approaches are used to establish the likely real capacity position (e.g. if a school has chosen to increase its admission number after building work, but has not amended the Net capacity figure). Current net capacity data is set out below. Estab School Area Capacity admission number 4051 Bulmershe 1383 240 4049 Emmbrook 1219 210 4050 Forest 1208 210 4047 Holt 1209 240 4053 Maiden Erlegh 1788 278 4505 Piggott 1338 203 4048 St Crispin's 1123 200 4060 Waingels College 1500 240 4000 Oakbank 560 112 4001 Bohunt 1200 240 Net capacity is not necessarily a good measure of capacity. For example, a large new sixth form block may increase the net capacity significantly, but leave the school with unbalanced accommodation (e.g. too few science labs) if this was translated into a much higher admission number for Years 7 or 12. Piers Brunning Senior Specialist (People and Place) Strategy and Commissioning Wokingham BC 04/01/2021 21 4. Number of students leaving WBC to attend Farnborough 6th, Farnborough tech, Wokingham and Bracknell college and Reading including course to have a true picture of requirements for the growth strategy. Note that the roll projections already take account of young people moving onto colleges (so this movement is already accounted for in projections). School Total Others (mainstream) Newbury College Farnborough College rough 6th form rough6th college form Henley 6thHenley College Form Unknown OOC FE College Unknown College OOC FE Farnbo Berkshire College of BerkshireAgriculture College Bracknell & Wokingham College Wokingham Bracknell & Reading College Activate Learning College Activate Reading Waingels College S 40 25 7 7 S S S S 85 St Crispin's School 36 8 12 12 S S 6 S S 80 #N/A (Independent Schools?) 46 13 S S 2 S S 7 S 79 The Holt School 35 10 6 S 7 S S S S 70 Maiden Erlegh School 7 18 10 14 S S S S S 57 The Forest School 20 10 7 8 S S S S S 54 The Emmbrook School 11 12 4 11 7 S S S S 52 The Piggott School S 8 16 S 20 S S S S 52 Oakbank Secondary Free School 12 21 S S S S S S S 44 Bulmershe School S 8 S S S S S S S 17 13 51 WBC 128 5 86 63 52 22 17 1 8 1 S = 5 or less NB - the level of courses attended is not captured, but it a reasonable expectation that most students at the two 6th form colleges are taking Level 3 courses 5 Year 7 places for girls The adequacy of places for girls was queried in the meeting. The table below shows that on census days there were only 24 co-educational or girls’ places. Co-educational places cannot 22 be reserved for girls, so on this basis it may only be possible to allocate circa 12 places for girls, before current capacity is exhausted. This is clearly a matter of concern. School Admission available Boys Girls Co- Number places only only educational Bohunt* 240 -3 -3 Bulmershe 240 5 5 Emmbrook 210 12 12 Forest* 210 135 135 Holt* 240 1 1 Maiden Erlegh* 278 3 3 Oakbank* 112 0 0 Piggott Senior* 203 0 0 St Crispin's* 200 -6 -6 Waingels College* 240 12 12 Total 2173 159 135 1 23 7% 6% 0% 1% 23 This page is intentionally left blank.