Data set from School capacity

Special school capacity - school

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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: 3,267
• Geographic levels: School
• Indicators:
  • Number of primary pupils on roll
  • Number of primary school places
  • Number of pupils on roll
• 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	primary_planning_area_code	secondary_planning_area_code	school_laestab	school_urn	school_name	education_phase	school_phase	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	School	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands	831	E06000015	Derby	1831003	z	8317024	147558	St Giles' Spencer Academy	Primary	PS	145	150	145	0	150	0
202425	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands	831	E06000015	Derby	z	1831013	8317029	135345	Kingsmead School	Secondary	SS	180	147	0	180	7	140
202425	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands	831	E06000015	Derby	z	1831013	8317027	147132	St Andrew's Academy	Secondary	SS	119	158	0	119	0	158
202425	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands	831	E06000015	Derby	z	1831013	8317025	147137	St Clare's School	Secondary	SS	145	164	0	145	0	164
202425	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands	831	E06000015	Derby	z	1831013	8317021	147143	St Martins School	Secondary	SS	151	240	0	151	0	240

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 6 variables

Variable name	Variable description
primary_capacity_count	Number of primary school places
primary_pupils_on_roll_count	Number of primary pupils on roll
pupils_on_roll_count	Number of pupils on roll
school_places	Number of school places
secondary_capacity_count	Number of secondary school places

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

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