Data set from National pupil projections

Pupil projections - 2024 projection

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Published 18 July 2024

Last updated 18 July 2024

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Data set details

• Theme: Pupils and schools
• Publication: National pupil projections
• Release: Reporting year 2024
• Geographic levels: National
• Indicators:
  • actual population in 2010
  • actual population in 2011
  • actual population in 2012
• Filters:
  • Headcount or FTE
  • single year of age or age group
  • type of school
• Time period: 2024

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	projection_type	school_type	pupil_status	pupil_age	2010_actual	2011_actual	2012_actual	2013_actual	2014_actual	2015_actual	2016_actual	2017_actual	2018_actual	2019_actual	2020_actual	2021_actual	2022_actual	2023_actual	2024_actual	2025_projection	2026_projection	2027_projection	2028_projection
2024	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England	Principal	State nursery	Headcount	All	37,574	38,828	39,396	38,819	39,972	41,456	43,729	43,786	42,844	42,207	42,110	37,865	38,036	37,496	36,726	36,261	35,843	35,307	35,488
2024	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England	Principal	State nursery	FTE	All	22,390	22,557	22,710	22,342	23,032	23,747	25,008	25,661	27,949	27,945	28,531	25,628	26,159	26,049	25,866	25,658	25,458	25,088	25,228
2024	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England	Principal	State primary	Headcount	Under 5	864,100	881,742	909,884	926,681	926,287	938,200	959,089	955,072	923,712	907,646	903,423	877,203	872,521	864,296	852,261	839,116	831,251	826,757	813,114
2024	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England	Principal	State primary	FTE	Under 5	731,546	746,308	772,197	791,876	791,298	804,164	823,240	823,184	814,664	804,738	807,346	791,558	788,219	783,897	774,930	763,618	756,864	754,095	740,274
2024	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England	Principal	State primary	FTE	5	564,801	577,296	589,563	608,988	633,115	629,468	642,315	653,978	653,715	636,664	624,892	619,624	624,868	615,997	607,628	598,332	586,240	578,461	578,255

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 22 variables

Variable name	Variable description
2010_actual	actual population in 2010
2011_actual	actual population in 2011
2012_actual	actual population in 2012
2013_actual	actual population in 2013
2014_actual	actual population in 2014

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