Data set from National pupil projections

Pupil projections - 2022 principal projection

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Published 14 July 2022

Last updated 14 July 2022

Actual and projected pupil projection by school type, pupil status and age or age group

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Data set details

• Theme: Pupils and schools
• Publication: National pupil projections
• Release: Reporting year 2022
• Number of rows: 80
• Geographic levels: National
• Indicators:
  • actual population in 2008
  • actual population in 2009
  • actual population in 2010
  • actual population in 2011
  • actual population in 2012
  • actual population in 2013
  • actual population in 2014
  • actual population in 2015
  • actual population in 2016
  • actual population in 2017
  • actual population in 2018
  • actual population in 2019
  • actual population in 2020
  • actual population in 2021
  • actual population in 2022
  • projection for 2023
  • projection for 2024
  • projection for 2025
  • projection for 2026
  • projection for 2027
  • projection for 2028
  • projection for 2029
  • projection for 2030
  • projection for 2031
  • projection for 2032
• Filters:
  • Headcount or FTE
  • single year of age or age group
  • type of school
• Time period: 2022

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	projection_type	school_type	pupil_status	pupil_age	2008_actual	2009_actual	2010_actual	2011_actual	2012_actual	2013_actual	2014_actual	2015_actual	2016_actual	2017_actual	2018_actual	2019_actual	2020_actual	2021_actual	2022_actual	2023_projection	2024_projection	2025_projection	2026_projection	2027_projection	2028_projection	2029_projection	2030_projection	2031_projection	2032_projection
2022	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England	Principal	State nursery	Headcount	All	37,440	37,283	37,574	38,828	39,396	38,819	39,972	41,456	43,729	43,786	42,844	42,207	42,110	37,865	38,036	36,447	34,946	33,982	33,634	33,568	33,624	33,544	33,407	33286	33183
2022	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England	Principal	State nursery	FTE	All	22,939	22,561	22,390	22,557	22,710	22,342	23,032	23,747	25,008	25,661	27,949	27,945	28,531	25,628	26,159	25,231	24,268	23,622	23,395	23,352	23,399	23,348	23,253	23169	23097
2022	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England	Principal	State primary	Headcount	Under 5	826,994	845,952	864,100	881,742	909,884	926,681	926,287	938,200	959,089	955,072	923,712	907,646	903,423	877,203	872,521	845,185	816,808	785,403	762,814	755,429	753,197	755,077	753,506	750197	747355
2022	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England	Principal	State primary	FTE	Under 5	696,416	716,096	731,546	746,308	772,197	791,876	791,298	804,164	823,240	823,184	814,664	804,738	807,346	791,558	788,219	766,266	742,595	714,358	692,989	686,007	683,624	685,674	684,466	681475	678906
2022	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England	Principal	State primary	FTE	5	529,473	549,190	564,801	577,296	589,563	608,988	633,115	629,468	642,315	653,978	653,715	636,664	624,892	619,624	624,868	609,205	593,270	577,054	554,187	534,458	527,945	524,942	527,345	526905	524543

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Variables in this data set

Table showing all 28 variables

Variable name	Variable description
2008_actual	actual population in 2008
2009_actual	actual population in 2009
2010_actual	actual population in 2010
2011_actual	actual population in 2011
2012_actual	actual population in 2012
2013_actual	actual population in 2013
2014_actual	actual population in 2014
2015_actual	actual population in 2015
2016_actual	actual population in 2016
2017_actual	actual population in 2017
2018_actual	actual population in 2018
2019_actual	actual population in 2019
2020_actual	actual population in 2020
2021_actual	actual population in 2021
2022_actual	actual population in 2022
2023_projection	projection for 2023
2024_projection	projection for 2024
2025_projection	projection for 2025
2026_projection	projection for 2026
2027_projection	projection for 2027
2028_projection	projection for 2028
2029_projection	projection for 2029
2030_projection	projection for 2030
2031_projection	projection for 2031
2032_projection	projection for 2032
pupil_age	single year of age or age group - age range
pupil_status	Headcount or FTE - headcount or full time equivalent count
school_type	type of school - school type

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