NPQ school coverage 2025-26
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The number NPQ starts and participants, the total teaching workforce and the share of the teaching workforce starting an NPQ, broken down by funding, course type and individual and school 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
- Release type
- Number of rows
- 80
- Geographic levels
- National
- Indicators
- Schools with any NPQ starts
- Schools with funded starts
- Schools with non-funded starts
- Filters
- Cumulative/ discrete
- Group name
- Time period
- 2021/22 to 2025/26
Data set preview
| time_period | time_identifier | geographic_level | country_code | country_name | breakdown | group_name | cum_disc | total_schools | npq_schools | funded_npq_schools | non_funded_npq_schools | perc_npq_schools | perc_funded_npq_schools | perc_non_funded_npq_schools |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 202122 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Overall | Overall | Cumulative | 23016 | 10913 | 10758 | 239 | 47.4 | 46.7 | 1 |
| 202223 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Overall | Overall | Cumulative | 23060 | 16387 | 16305 | 359 | 71.1 | 70.7 | 1.6 |
| 202324 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Overall | Overall | Cumulative | 23061 | 19206 | 19162 | 427 | 83.3 | 83.1 | 1.9 |
| 202425 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Overall | Overall | Cumulative | 23203 | 20485 | 20330 | 2445 | 88.3 | 87.6 | 10.5 |
| 202526 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Overall | Overall | Cumulative | 23394 | 21143 | 20960 | 3421 | 90.4 | 89.6 | 14.6 |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| cum_disc | Cumulative/ discrete |
| funded_npq_schools | Schools with funded starts |
| group_name | Group name |
| non_funded_npq_schools | Schools with non-funded starts |
| npq_schools | Schools with any NPQ starts |
Footnotes
- Schools are based on the number of publicly funded schools and 16 to 19 educational organisations in England and are ‘open’ or ‘open, but proposed to close’ in each academic year.
- The breakdown for academies also includes free schools.
- The 'Other' category includes all-through schools covering nursery, primary, and secondary levels.
- Some independent special schools are eligible for NPQ funding under Section 41 of the Children and Families Act 2014. These schools are included in the 'special schools' category
- 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.
- NPQ starts in international schools are not included. See the methodology note for more detail.
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