Data set from School capacity

School capacity

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Published 24 March 2022

Last updated 24 March 2022

Includes number of school places; number of pupils on roll from the May School Census; the number of schools at or in excess of capacity and the number of pupils in places that exceed their school's capacity; the number schools with one or more unfilled places and the number of unfilled places. All data includes sixth form places and excludes nursery places.

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Data set details

• Theme: Pupils and schools
• Publication: School capacity
• Release: Academic year 2020/21
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Number of pupils on roll
  • Number of school places
  • Number of schools
• Filters:
  • School phase
• Time period: 2009/10 to 2020/21

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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	primary_planning_area_code	secondary_planning_area_code	school_laestab	school_urn	school_name	school_main_phase	school_phase	count_schools	school_places	pupils_on_roll	primary_capacity	secondary_capacity	at_or_over_capacity_schools	pupils_over_capacity	percent_pupils_over_capacity	under_capacity_schools	unfilled_places	percent_unfilled_places
202021	Academic year	National	E92000001	England											Total		20183	8905967	7872735			3537	56368	0.632924	16642	1089331	12.231474
202021	Academic year	National	E92000001	England											Primary		16791	4943111	4403235			2785	20930	0.423418	14003	560585	11.340733
202021	Academic year	National	E92000001	England											Secondary		3392	3962856	3469500			752	35438	0.894254	2639	528746	13.342549
202021	Academic year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East									Total		1029	412805	359108			155	2355	0.570487	874	56052	13.578324
202021	Academic year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East									Primary		859	228919	199647			116	832	0.363447	743	30104	13.150503

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 10 variables

Variable name	Variable description
at_or_over_capacity_schools	Number of schools at or in excess of capacity
count_schools	Number of schools
percent_pupils_over_capacity	Pupils in places that exceed their school's capacity as a percentage of total places
percent_unfilled_places	Unfilled places as a percentage of total places
pupils_on_roll	Number of pupils on roll

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Footnotes

1. Primary places include all reported capacity in middle deemed primary schools and secondary places include all reported capacity in middle-deemed secondary and all-through schools.
2. Number of pupils in places that exceed their school's capacity is the difference between school capacity and number of pupils on roll, calculated at school level and then aggregated to national, regional or local authority level.
3. z - Indicates data is not applicable.
4. Number on roll figures are taken from the summer (May) census for the relevant academic year, except for new schools (including schools that have become academies) where figures are based on data gathered during the school capacity collection. Number on roll relates to pupils in reception year group and above.
5. Includes community, foundation, voluntary and middle schools as deemed. Includes academies/free schools. Includes sixth form places. Excludes all special schools. Excludes nursery places.
6. For free schools, number of school places includes final intended capacity. Some free schools are initially in temporary accommodation and may not reach final intended capacity for varying periods of time.
7. 2009/10 national, regional and local authority aggregations exclude 13 secondary academies where no school capacity figure was provided. They are included in the school-level underlying data.

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