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<p>The Department is on track to create one million places this decade, the largest
increase in school capacity for at least two generations.</p><p>The Department collects
pupil forecasts, existing school capacities, and plans to deliver additional school
places from each local authority via the annual school capacity survey. Around 920,000
new school places have been created since 2010.</p><p>Of those new school places that
were created in existing schools between 2016 and 2017, 91%[1] were in schools rated
as good or outstanding by Ofsted and 9% of the new places were created in schools
rated as requiring improvement or inadequate.</p><p> </p><p>[1] This figure will expire
on the 27 June 2019 on publication of the latest local authority school places Scorecards
2018.</p>
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