Surrey has experienced a huge increase in demand for places at our high-quality schools and this surge shows no sign of slowing. So, we are investing nearly £330 million to embark on the biggest school expansion programme Surrey’s ever seen, which will create around 3,800 new school places in the next academic year alone (the equivalent of building around nine brand new two-form entry primary schools)

Surrey County Council aims to expand 20 schools in time for the return from the 2015 summer holiday and just this month Cabinet signed off proposals to build an extra 630 places.

The expansion work is part of the biggest expansion of education in Surrey’s history and is in response to a growing demand fuelled by a rising birth rate. It will see almost £330 million invested in providing the 20,000 extra places needed by 2019. Of those, 6,600 have been created during this academic year and the last one.