Data set from Early years foundation stage profile results

3 Headline measures by multiple child characteristics (national only)

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Published 22 October 2026

Last updated 22 October 2026

Headline measures by multiple characteristics.

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Data set details

• Theme: Early years
• Publication: Early years foundation stage profile results
• Release: Academic year 2025/26
• Number of rows: 149,760
• Geographic levels: National
• Indicators:
  • Number of children with a good level of development
  • Percentage of children with a good level of development
  • Number of children at expected level across all early learning goals
• Filters:
  • Sex
  • Free school meal eligibility
  • Term of birth
• Time period: 2021/22 to 2025/26

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	ethnicity_major	ethnicity_minor	sen_provision	first_language	fsm_eligibility	term_of_birth	sex	children_count	children_percent	elgs_expected_average	all_elgs_expected_children_count	all_elgs_expected_children_percent	comm_lang_lit_expected_children_count	comm_lang_lit_expected_children_percent	gld_children_count	gld_children_percent	zero_elgs_gld_expected_children_count	zero_elgs_gld_expected_children_percent	zero_elgs_all_expected_children_count	zero_elgs_all_expected_children_percent
202526	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	576725	100.000000	14.430482	408905	70.901209	424180	73.549785	417016	72.307599	27784	4.817547	26387	4.575318
202526	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	Female	281851	48.870952	15.163877	218683	77.588158	224848	79.775484	221574	78.613878	8499	3.015423	7962	2.824897
202526	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	Male	294874	51.129048	13.729478	190222	64.509587	199332	67.599042	195442	66.279835	19285	6.540082	18425	6.248432
202526	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	Autumn-born	Total	196313	34.039273	14.908483	151330	77.086082	155971	79.450164	153820	78.354465	9051	4.610494	8703	4.433227
202526	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	Autumn-born	Female	95283	16.521392	15.582643	79465	83.398927	81123	85.139007	80273	84.246928	2743	2.878793	2624	2.753902

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 19 variables

Variable name	Variable description
all_elgs_expected_children_count	Number of children at expected level across all early learning goals
all_elgs_expected_children_percent	Percentage of children at expected level across all early learning goals
children_count	Number of children
children_percent	Percentage of children
comm_lang_lit_expected_children_count	Number of children at expected level in Communication & Language and Literacy areas of learning

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Email: earlyyears.statistics@education.gov.uk
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