Sentences with phrase «spare school capacity»
The research added: «It seems inconceivable that any local area with one free school and plenty of spare school capacity would be offered the resources for many others.
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Birmingham City Council so far only has plans to deliver 878 additional places, which, when combined with the current number of spare places, would leave a capacity shortfall of 4,922 school places by 2020.
An analysis I did for my newspaper, the New York Daily News, compared all 6,979 transfers in the city for 2003 - 04 with the official building capacity of the receiving schools the previous school year and found that nearly 60 percent of those transfers went to schools with more than enough room to spare.
Third, there was enough spare capacity in existing private schools to accommodate the small number of CSF scholarship winners.
They note that while free schools are helping to meet the need for new school places in some areas, they are creating spare capacity in others, in some cases 20 % over what is needed.
«Creating surplus places is an inefficient use of public money and damages existing schools where spare capacity is created,» said Mr Barton.
The report has revealed that more than half of the 113,500 new places in mainstream free schools will actually create spare capacity in some of their immediate areas.
The NAO noted that this «spare capacity» can affect pupil numbers and therefore funding in neighbouring schools and referred to DfE data indicating that «spare places in 52 free schools opening in 2015 could have a moderate or high impact on the funding of any of 282 neighbouring schools».
The report states that the DfE itself estimated that «57,500 of 113,500 new places in mainstream free schools opening between 2015 and 2021 will create spare capacity in some free schools» immediate area».
The National Audit Office found that 57,500 of 113,500 new places in mainstream free schools opening between 2015 and 2021 will create «spare capacity» in the immediate areas of some of the institutions.