Data set from Teacher and leader development: ECTE and NPQs

ECTE retention 2025-26

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Published 9 July 2026

Last updated 9 July 2026

ECTs participating in ECTE-based induction who were retained in the SWC after one year, two years, three years and four years, broken down by program type (provider-led and school-led), geography, school and pupil characteristics.

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Data set details

• Theme: Teachers and school workforce
• Publication: Teacher and leader development: ECTE and NPQs
• Release: Academic year 2025/26
• Number of rows: 802
• Geographic levels: National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • ECTs retained after four years
  • ECTs retained after one year
  • ECTs retained after three years
• Filters:
  • Group name
  • Program Type
• Time period: 2021/22 to 2025/26

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Data set preview

Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_name	country_code	region_name	region_code	programme	breakdown	group_name	count_swfc_ects	count_one_year_retention	count_two_year_retention	count_three_year_retention	count_four_year_retention	percent_one_year_retention	percent_two_year_retention	percent_three_year_retention	percent_four_year_retention
202122	Academic year	National	England	E92000001			Overall	Overall	Overall	21570	18942	17148	15881	15178	87.8	79.5	73.6	70.4
202223	Academic year	National	England	E92000001			Overall	Overall	Overall	21029	18722	16962	15961	z	89	80.7	75.9	z
202324	Academic year	National	England	E92000001			Overall	Overall	Overall	17589	15821	14594	z	z	89.9	83	z	z
202425	Academic year	National	England	E92000001			Overall	Overall	Overall	16359	14698	z	z	z	89.8	z	z	z
202526	Academic year	National	England	E92000001			Overall	Overall	Overall	15209	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 11 variables

Variable name	Variable description
count_four_year_retention	ECTs retained after four years
count_one_year_retention	ECTs retained after one year
count_swfc_ects	ECTs starting induction
count_three_year_retention	ECTs retained after three years
count_two_year_retention	ECTs retained after two years

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Footnotes

1. Early career teachers (ECTs) refers to those who started an ECTE-based induction.
2. The appearance of 'u' in the table indicates observation of low reliability due to certain subgroups of population having fewer than 30 individuals
3. The breakdown for academies also includes free schools.
4. The appearance of 'z' in the table indicates that the metric is not applicable to this category. This could be as no teachers in this group appear in the School Workforce Census for this category, or for retention, not enough time has passed to be able to look at the two-year figure.
5. The 'Other' category includes all-through schools covering nursery, primary, and secondary levels.
6. The ‘Other types’ category includes city technology colleges, further education establishments, sixth form centres, special post-16 institutions and universities. It also includes non-maintained special schools and some independent special schools eligible for funding under Section 41 of the Children and Families Act 2014.
7. Pupil premium decile is a measure of disadvantage. A school is allocated funding for pupils that meet the pupil premium criteria (opens in new tab). Data is collected on the percentage of pupils within each school that qualify. In this publication we look at the decile split of schools in terms of this pupil premium percentage.

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