Data set from School capacity

Specialist provision- mainstream schools, national, regional, local authority

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Published 21 March 2024

Last updated 21 March 2024

Specialist provision in mainstream schools aggregated to local authority, regional and national level. School places, which includes sixth form places and excludes nursery places, reported by local authorities. File also includes number of pupils on roll from the May School Census; SEND unit capacity; resourced provision capacity in mainstream schools.

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Data set details

• Theme: Pupils and schools
• Publication: School capacity
• Release: Academic year 2022/23
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Number of school places
  • Number of school pupils on roll
  • Number of schools
• Filters:
  • School main phase
• Time period: 2022/23

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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	school_main_phase	count_schools	total_school_places	total_school_pupils_on_roll	SEND_unit_capacity	resourced_provision_capacity	primary_SEND_unit_capacity	primary_resourced_provision_capacity	secondary_SEND_unit_capacity	secondary_resourced_provision_capacity
202223	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						Total	1631	1159263	1045588	9010	17820	5912	10213	3098	7607
202223	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						Primary	1060	419044	376100	5904	10080	5894	10073	10	7
202223	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						Secondary	571	740219	669488	3106	7740	18	140	3088	7600
202223	Academic year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East				Total	99	63148	57238	739	1150	482	657	257	493
202223	Academic year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East				Primary	64	20120	17490	464	653	464	653	0	0

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 10 variables

Variable name	Variable description
count_schools	Number of schools
primary_resourced_provision_capacity	Primary resourced provision capacity
primary_SEND_unit_capacity	Primary special educational needs and disabilities unit capacity
resourced_provision_capacity	Resourced provision capacity
school_main_phase	School main phase

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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. Main phase primary schools include primary and middle deemed primary schools. Capacity excludes nursery places. For middle schools, capacity has been spilt into primary and secondary.
3. Main phase secondary schools 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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