1. What is the published admission number for the relevant year group?
Published admission number for Maiden Erlegh is 278. This will be increasing to 279 from September 2022.

2. How many pupils were admitted to the school in each of the last 5 years?
There were 278 pupils admitted to year 7 in each of the last 5 years and there has been a waiting list created for each of these year groups.

3. How many appeals were heard and how many were successful in the relevant year group in the last 5 years?
2021: 42 appeals lodged, 8 withdrawn, 2 settled, 32 refused.
2020: 19 appeals lodged, 3 withdrawn, 5 settled, 11 refused.
2019: 41 appeals lodged, 7 withdrawn, 10 settled, 21 refused, 3 allowed
2018: 15 appeals lodged, 3 withdrawn, 3 settled, 7 refused, 2 allowed
2017: 9 appeals lodged, 5 withdrawn, 2 settled, 2 refused

4. How many pupils are on roll now in each of the year groups in the school?
Pupils numbers as of today’s date are:
Year 7: 278
Year 8: 278
Year 9: 278
Year 10: 279
Year 11: 278
Sixth form: 470

5. What is the capacity for the school?
The net capacity assessment for the school is 1818 places.

6. What is the maximum and minimum number of pupils the school can accommodate?
The minimum net capacity assessment is 1723 and the maximum net capacity assessment is 1915.

7. When was the last review of the school’s capacity?
The last net capacity assessment was undertaken in August 2012.

8. Have there been any changes to the school since the last review?
There have been no additional building works to increase the capacity of the school since that date in 2012.

9. How many teachers are employed at the school?
There are currently 134 teachers employed at the school. This information has been provided by the school as the local authority do not hold this information.

10. What were the numbers of pupils at school as per the census in January for the last 5 years?
The number of overall pupils taken from the January census over the past 5 years is:
Jan 2022: 1860
Jan 2021: 1824
Jan 2020: 1841
Jan 2019: 1824
Jan 2018: 1787

11. How many children left the school over the last 5 years in the year group being appealed for?
Over the past 5 years the number of pupils leaving the Year 7 cohort was:
2021/22: 7 pupils
2020/21: 6 pupils
2019/20: 7 pupils
2018/19: 16 pupils
2017/18: 8 pupils

12. Please provide us with the average percentage of children with a special educational need within the school and a comparison of that with the national average.
The national average for pupils in secondary school requiring SEND support is 11.5%. (National average date is from 2020 as the 2021 data will not be published until June 2022) At Maiden Erlegh this 17.86%

13. Please provide us with the average percentage of children with an EHCP within the school and a comparison of that with the national average?
The national average for pupils in secondary school with an EHCP is 2%. (Again this is 2020 data as above). At Maiden Erlegh this figure is 7.95%

14. Please provide us with the average percentage of children in receipt of the pupil premium for the school and a comparison of that with the national average.
The national average for pupils in secondary school in receipt of the pupil premium grant is 18.9%. (Again this is 2020 data as above). At Maiden Erlegh this is 9.49%.

15. Please provide us with the percentage for those children who have English as an additional language and again a similar comparison with the national average.
The national average for pupils in secondary school who have English as an additional language is 17.2%. (2020 data). At Maiden Erlegh this figure is 34.74%.

16. Based on the year 7 entry since September 2018 how many children did not accept their places i.e., were no shows, on the first day of term and how many places were then offered from the continuing interest list?
I am unable to answer the question about the number of pupils who did not accept their place for year 7 entry as the database is a live system.