1 Headline measures by characteristics
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Headline measures by child characteristics (sex, major and minor ethnic group, first language, free school meal eligibility, term of birth, special educational needs (SEN) and SEN primary need).
Breakdowns by local authority district are based on the location of the child’s school or provider.
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Data set details
- Theme
- Early years
- Publication
- Early years foundation stage profile results
- Release
- Academic year 2023/24
- Release type
- Geographic levels
- Local authority, Local authority district, National, Regional
- Indicators
- Number of children
- Average number of early learning goals at expected level per child
- Number of children at expected level across all early learning goals
- Filters
- Child characteristics breakdown
- Sex
- Time period
- 2021/22 to 2023/24
Data set preview
| time_period | time_identifier | geographic_level | country_code | country_name | region_code | region_name | old_la_code | new_la_code | la_name | lad_code | lad_name | breakdown_topic | breakdown | sex | children_number | average_elgs | elg_number | elg_percentage | comm_lang_lit_number | comm_lang_lit_percentage | gld_number | gld_percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 202324 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Total | Total | Total | 608217 | 14.1 | 402851 | 66.2 | 420675 | 69.2 | 411626 | 67.7 | |||||||
| 202324 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Total | Total | Female | 296556 | 14.9 | 219330 | 74 | 226405 | 76.3 | 222494 | 75 | |||||||
| 202324 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Total | Total | Male | 311661 | 13.3 | 183521 | 58.9 | 194270 | 62.3 | 189132 | 60.7 | |||||||
| 202324 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Ethnic group: major | White | Total | 413019 | 14.4 | 280670 | 68 | 292860 | 70.9 | 285879 | 69.2 | |||||||
| 202324 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Ethnic group: major | White | Female | 200981 | 15.2 | 152094 | 75.7 | 156826 | 78 | 153859 | 76.6 |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| average_elgs | Average number of early learning goals at expected level per child |
| breakdown | Child characteristics breakdown |
| children_number | Number of children |
| comm_lang_lit_number | Number of children at expected level in Communication & Language and Literacy areas of learning |
| comm_lang_lit_percentage | Percentage of children at expected level in Communication & Language and Literacy areas of learning |
Footnotes
- Autumn-born: September to December. Spring-born: January to March. Summer-born: April to August. In publications before 2022/23, children born in April were classified as spring-born. Since the 2022/23 release, children born in April are classified as summer-born to align with other departmental outputs. Data for 2021/22 has been revised to reflect this change.
- The 'Unknown' first language category describes cases where a child's first language could not be determined. These children are included in the 'Total' numbers.
- The 'Unknown' SEN category describes cases where SEN provision could not be determined. These children are included in the 'Total' numbers.
- The 'Unknown' ethnic group category describes cases where a child's ethnicity was refused or not obtained. These children are included in the 'Total' numbers.
- In previous publications, the category ‘Not known to be eligible for free school meals’ included both those not eligible for free school meals and those not known to be eligible for free school meals (i.e. children who did not appear in the school census). Since the 2022/23 release, as a methodological improvement, the categories have been split out and are now ‘Eligible for free school meals’, ‘Not eligible for free school meals’ and ‘Unknown’ (i.e. children who did not appear in the schools census). Data for 2021/22 has been revised to reflect this change.
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