Hertfordshire County Council SSPP Topic Group Mainstream Pupil Number Forecasting System Kate Ma Planning Officer, School Places Team
Hertfordshire County Council Outline Programme Overview of Forecasting System Objective & Purpose Methodology Producing Pupil Forecasts Analysis Demonstration
Hertfordshire County Council Overview of the Forecasting System Introduced in 2003 Software system - Oracle database User web interface Methodology based on Audit Commission’s recommendations for pupil forecasting Produces annual pupil forecasts Forecast modelling
Hertfordshire County Council Objectives & Purpose of Forecasting To project pupil numbers at planning area level to inform school place planning activity, e.g. - As a tool to identify areas of rising surplus places - Setting published admission numbers - Reporting to DfES on projected pupil numbers, HCC wide
Hertfordshire County Council Forecast Methodology Forecasts are based on 22 education planning areas (secondary) These are sub divided into primary planning areas Updated data sets are imported into the forecasting system in April each year From these data sets, the annual pupil forecasts are produced
Hertfordshire County Council Annual Data Imports Actual Pupil Numbers (PLASC) - Unique pupil number, year group, their school now and last year. GP Registrations (Health Authority) - Postcodes and dates of birth New Housing Completions Predictions (Environment Department Database) Postcode file School data
Hertfordshire County Council Simplified flow chart of the forecasting process 7 Data from external Source Data Created in Software Complete Forecast PRIMARY uses GP Data. January Pupil Count. To Predict future Reception Classes Create Area Forecasts And split down to Schools Compare this year's Actuals with previous years Forecast Produce Forecast Report Produce Variance Report Used to improve forecast accuracy To Predict New Pupils New Housing Completions SECONDARY Previous Movement Patterns To Predict future Admission Classes
Hertfordshire County Council Data set samples – Pupil Data
Hertfordshire County Council Data sets – Housing Development Description
Hertfordshire County Council Data sets – Housing Development House Type
Hertfordshire County Council Data sets – Housing Development Completion Forecast
Hertfordshire County Council Housing Developments Source: Environment Department Contains all new developments from Local Plan allocations through to planning permissions Identified by number of bedrooms and geographical location
Hertfordshire County Council New Housing Pupil Yield No of Bedrooms No of Primary per 1000 No of Secondary per 1000 Unknown/0Bed Bed10 2Bed6134 3Bed Bed Bed542291
Hertfordshire County Council /7 Pupil Forecasts 2006/7 Pupil Forecast - Secondary & Primary - Used to inform the planning process at planning area level Make-Up of 2006/7 Forecast - Secondary & Primary - Admissions/Births/Surviving Cohorts/Pupils from new housing
Hertfordshire County Council Analysis of projections prior to publication Variance Analysis – by area – under/over estimations Correlation between current cohort and future projections Analysis of 0 – 4 year old data Local Intelligence
Hertfordshire County Council Forecasting System Demonstration
Hertfordshire County Council Harpenden Secondary population trends
Hertfordshire County Council /7 Harpenden Yr 7 Forecasts
Hertfordshire County Council /7 Forecast Reception Trends - Harpenden