Data set from School capacity

Specialist provision capacity in mainstream schools - national, regional, local authority

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Published 19 March 2026

Last updated 19 March 2026

Number of mainstream schools with specialist provision places, school places (which includes sixth form places and excludes nursery places), SEN unit and resourced provision places as at 1 May 2025. Pupils on roll from the May 2025 school census.

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Data set details

• Theme: Pupils and schools
• Publication: School capacity
• Release: Academic year 2024/25
• Number of rows: 1,361
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Number of school places
  • Number of school pupils on roll
  • Number of schools
• Filters:
  • School main phase
• Time period: 2022/23 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	education_phase	school_count	schools_with_primary_and_secondary_capacity_count	school_places	pupils_on_roll_count	send_unit_capacity_count	resourced_provision_capacity_count	primary_send_unit_capacity_count	primary_resourced_provision_capacity_count	secondary_send_unit_capacity_count	secondary_resourced_provision_capacity_count
202425	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						Total	1915	42	1356593	1187415	10069	22165	6940	13133	3129	9018
202425	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						Primary	1262	1	496066	429412	6931	12944	6931	12941	0	3
202425	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						Secondary	653	41	860527	758003	3138	9221	9	192	3129	9015
202425	Academic year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands				Total	108	1	74727	69185	1825	234	1091	189	734	45
202425	Academic year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands				Primary	71	0	26570	23860	1091	189	1091	189	0	0

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 11 variables

Variable name	Variable description
education_phase	School main phase
primary_resourced_provision_capacity_count	Primary resourced provision capacity
primary_send_unit_capacity_count	Primary special educational needs and disabilities unit capacity
pupils_on_roll_count	Number of school pupils on roll
resourced_provision_capacity_count	Resourced provision capacity

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Footnotes

1. Number of pupils on roll for reception year group and above. Taken from the May school census for the relevant academic year, or gathered during the school capacity collection if census data was not available for a school.
2. Schools defined as "primary" include primary and middle deemed primary schools. Capacity excludes nursery places. For middle schools, capacity has been spilt into primary and secondary.
3. Schools defined as "secondary" include secondary, middle-deemed secondary and all-through schools. Capacity includes sixth form places. For middle and all through schools, capacity has been spilt into primary and secondary.

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Email: SCAP.PPP@education.gov.uk
Contact name: Robert Miller

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