Number on roll v net capacity

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Hi-I have just received schools evidence on appeal. It states the number on roll is 1880 but the dfe page says school capacity os 1890. Is this worth pointing out or is this a normal difference? I don’t want to seem petty but it feels on the face of it like quite a big difference when they are arguing there isn’t space.

Are they talking about space within the indvidual year groups though

It only really helps if the space is in the year group that you want. Ten spaces in Y11 doesn’t free up space in Y7 classes (assuming their arguments are about classroom space and the like).

It seems back to front, but any of the older year groups being over capacity (rather than under) is perhaps more helpful because it shows that they have managed with additional children before.

Thanks-they have also given me the break down for all years and they are at PAN (except one year where they are one over I assume from an appeal). So PAN is set lower than net capacity I guess?

I should say it’s a massively oversubscribed school (1030 first choice applications this year for 330 spaces).

Similar to us. PAN 1600 but gov.uk page on school says 1613, raised it, and they fobbed it off as an error….