Data set from School capacity

Special school capacity - national, regional, local authority

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Published 19 March 2026

Last updated 19 March 2026

Number of schools and school places (which includes sixth form places and excludes nursery 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: 1,274
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Number of primary places
  • Number of primary pupils on roll
  • Number of pupils on roll
• 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	primary_capacity_count	secondary_capacity_count	primary_pupils_on_roll_count	secondary_pupils_on_roll_count
202425	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						Total	1101	667	158386	169059	62856	95514	64130	104929
202425	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						Primary	196	5	23341	25074	23250	91	24928	146
202425	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						Secondary	905	662	135045	143985	39606	95423	39202	104783
202425	Academic year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands				Total	84	58	11897	12715	4159	7738	4495	8220
202425	Academic year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands				Primary	10	0	1207	1270	1207	0	1270	0

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 9 variables

Variable name	Variable description
education_phase	School main phase
primary_capacity_count	Number of primary places
primary_pupils_on_roll_count	Number of primary pupils on roll
pupils_on_roll_count	Number of pupils on roll
school_count	Number of schools

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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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If you have a specific enquiry about Special school capacity - national, regional, local authority statistics and data:

Pupil Place Planning team

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

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