Data set from School workforce in England

Support staff characteristics

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Published 5 June 2025

Last updated 5 June 2025

Support staff FTE and headcount by type of school and characteristics including post held, age group and ethnicity (additional ancillary file at school level)

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Data set details

• Theme: Teachers and school workforce
• Publication: School workforce in England
• Release: Reporting year 2024
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Full-time equivalent
  • Full-time equivalent percent within indicator
  • Headcount
• Filters:
  • Age group
  • Ethnicity minor
  • Post
• Time period: 2011/12 to 2024/25

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	region_code	region_name	old_la_code	new_la_code	la_name	school_type	post	sex	age_group	working_pattern	ethnicity_major	ethnicity_minor	full_time_equivalent	headcount	fte_percent_within_ethnicity	headcount_percent_within_ethnicity
202425	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						Total state-funded schools	Teaching assistants	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	288812.376	401891.7131	100	100
202425	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						State-funded nursery and primary	Teaching assistants	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	186526.143	275727.3099	100	100
202425	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						LA maintained nursery and primary	Teaching assistants	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	102267.717	151502.9885	100	100
202425	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						LA maintained nursery	Teaching assistants	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	2173.06	2863	100	100
202425	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						LA maintained primary	Teaching assistants	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	100094.657	148639.9885	100	100

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 10 variables

Variable name	Variable description
age_group	Age group
ethnicity_minor	Ethnicity minor
fte_percent_within_ethnicity	Full-time equivalent percent within indicator
full_time_equivalent	Full-time equivalent
headcount	Headcount

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Footnotes

1. Two new posts of school business professional and leadership non-teacher were reported for the first time in 2023/24. School business professionals include roles such as bursar, business manager, finance officer, office manager, premises manager or ICT network manager. Leadership non-teachers are members of the school's senior leadership team who are not reported in a teaching post. These new posts have displaced reporting from other posts, particularly administrative staff.
2. From the November 2024 census onwards, sex has replaced gender. Sex will be the same value as reported to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

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