Planning of School Places Home
The School Organisation Team is part of the School Organisation, Admissions and Transport Section. The team are responsible for the planning of school places, reduction of surplus places, pupil projections, assessing school capacities and the publication of statutory proposals for school reorganisations.
Planning Obligations (Section 106)
Section 106 of the Town & Country Planning Act 1990 allows education authorities to obtain funds from developers of new housing developments where the number of houses being built will require extra school places. The Planning Obligations Policy||| provides a standard approach for the calculation of funds across all districts.
The School Organisation Team is currently reviewing the Planning Obligations Policy.
For an indicative education contribution please contact the School Organisation Team by email at school.organisation@staffordshire.gov.uk||| providing details of the site, dwelling numbers and dwelling type breakdown (if known).
Infant Class Size Legislation
It is a statutory requirement that all infant class sizes are limited to a maximum of 30 pupils per one school teacher throughout the school day, except for school assemblies, music, drama and sports lessons.
In the majority of cases, Staffordshire schools have maintained infant class sizes within the legal limit. However, PLASC returns made each year identify a small number of schools with infant classes of more than 30 pupils.
Further information for schools is available by logging on to the Staffordshire Learning Net|.
The closing date for applications has now passed.
You can view the Infant Class Size Legislation| on the DfE website.
Pupil Projections
Schools and other authorised users of the Staffordshire Learning Net can find pupil projections at :
http://education.staffordshire.gov.uk/SchoolAdministration/Planningofschoolplaces/|||
District Reviews
The County Council completed its District Review of School Places in July 2008. The Reviews lead to a number of school reorganisations across the County and investment of over £20 million in new schools and buildings. Hundreds of wasteful surplus places were removed and 18 schools were amalgamated, 5 were closed and 3 infant and junior schools were enlarged to become 3 primary schools.
The Reviews were a recommendation in the School Organisation Plan 2003-08, and began in the first of the 8 districts in 2004. The "Process for District Review of School Places" document identified the process that each district review followed.
(46 KB) Process For District Review of School Places|||
School Organisation Plan (SOP)
There is no longer a statutory requirement to publish a School Organisation Plan annually.
Headlines
The School Organisation Team have put together some headlines to describe what is happening in terms of pupil numbers for Staffordshire as a whole as well as for each individual district.
The headlines are currently being updated and will be added to the website soon.
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