Summer born children to start reception at compulsory school age - Find a freedom of information request

Request

1. How many requests for summer born children to start reception at compulsory school age were made for 2022 2023 and 2024 ? (please only include requests for Community Schools and Voluntary Controlled Schools in these figures.

2. How many of the above requests were approved for 2022, 2023, 2024

3. How many of the above requests were denied for 2022, 2023, 2024

4. How many children educated out of normal age group in primary school will transfer to secondary school in 2023?

5. How many children by standard cohort and summer born out of cohort transferring from primary school to secondary school have been forced to miss a year (year 6 or 7),  in the last 3 years.

6. I'd also like to know how many children who started at CSA, and were educated out of cohort, left school prior to GSCEs. If there are any children, could you give details on why they left - was it due to illness etc?
 

Decision

I can confirm that the information requested is held by Lincolnshire County Council. I have detailed below the information that is being released to you.

1. 2022 - 16

    2023 - 30

    2024 – 39

2. 2022 - 11

    2023 - 8

    2024 – 2

3. 2022 - 5

    2023 - 22

    2024 - 37

4. 12

5. Lincolnshire County Council does not hold this data

6. Lincolnshire County Council does not hold this data, LCC only hold data on the number of children registered outside of their chronological age but not their attendance or GCSE entries

Reference number
FOI 6847121
Date request received
17/05/23
Date of decision
02/06/23