Ayes Council is concerned about the performance of St Peter's School, one of the primary schools within its jurisdiction and, in order to substantiate this concern, the Council's Education Department has collected the following information regarding the last two years.

2018 2019

School Roll (no. of Pupils) 492 564

Number of teaching staff 20 18

Number of support staff 5 5

Number of classes 22 22

Possible teaching days in a year 288 288

Actual teaching days in a year 275 280

Total pupil absences 2258 3088

(in pupil teaching days)

Total teaching staff absences 123 191

(in pupil teaching days)

Budgeted expenditure 2,500,000 2,700,000

Actual expenditure 2,300,000 2,980,000

The data has been sent to the council's finance department in which you work for analysis.

Required

a) Calculate relevant performance measures for St Peter's School for each of the last two years.

b) Based on your calculations analyse the school's performance in terms of value for money and explain the possible management responses to your findings.