1. Provide the latest available school forecasts for this education authority, showing the number of pupils in each year group at each school (or for their respective school planning areas if individual school forecasts are not available), these are likely to be the forecasts which were prepared by this education authority in the summer of 2021.
The forecast data for all Maintained Primary and Secondary Schools in Devon can be viewed on this Devon County Council webpage
2. Please provide the latest available Number on Roll (NOR) data from the Autumn 2021 School Census when it becomes available, showing the number of pupils in each year group at each school.
The Autumn Term 2021 census data is currently being collated and will not be available until mid-November 2021, therefore this information is not held. Once complete this will be published on this Devon County Council webpage. The latest census data showing is for Summer Term 2020/21
3. Please provide school places allocation data for 2020 and 2021 showing (a) how many places were allocated each year at each school to out of catchment/out of area children (detailing from which other schools’ catchment areas) and (b) how many places were allocated each year at each school to children living outside this education authority’s area (indicating which area outside of this education authority’s area they were living in when applying for a place).
2020 Secondary Allocation data can be viewed on this Devon County Council webpage
2021 Secondary Allocation data can be viewed on this Devon County Council webpage
2020 Primary Allocation data can be viewed on this Devon County Council webpage
2021 Primary Allocation data can be viewed on this Devon County Council webpage
4. Please provide copies of any feasibility studies undertaken since January 2020 to add capacity at any of these schools (whether this capacity has been added or not); please confirm how many school places these schools will have as a result and when these places will be available; and please confirm the capacity details of any new schools to be opened in this education authority’s area within the next 5 years.
Schools commissions since January 2020:-
Lampard Special School – additional 60 places Lampard Planning Application
Okehampton Special School – new schools 100 places Okehampton Special School Planning Application
Marland Primary – additional 30 places Marland Primary Planning Application
Ace Tiverton – additional 30 places (as of date, no signed off feasibility) – Planning (change of use) as of date, not submitted
Uffculme Primary Academy – additional 30 places (no feasibility of date)
New schools to be opened in the next five years:-
Creative All through School South West Exeter – the scheme is being delivered by the DfE (Department for Education)
Okehampton Special School – please see above.
Please note we have only included schools with planning permission and a commitment to invest rather than potential proposals which may or may not be delivered over that time frame.