Data set from Schools, pupils and their characteristics

School characteristics by age, sex and attendance pattern

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Published 4 June 2026

Last updated 4 June 2026

Number of schools and pupils in England, by type, phase, denomination, admissions policy, sex, urban or rural classification and academy status, including pupil counts by age.

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Data set details

• Theme: Pupils and schools
• Publication: Schools, pupils and their characteristics
• API data set ID: 019e7401-bedb-711a-ae3d-836fbca519f3; How do I use this ID?
• Release: Academic year 2025/26
• Number of rows: 2,846,580
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Parliamentary constituency, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Count of pupils aged 0
  • Count of pupils aged 1
  • Count of pupils aged 10
• Filters:
  • Academy indicator
  • Attendance type
  • Denomination
• Time period: 2015/16 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	region_code	region_name	new_la_code	old_la_code	la_name	pcon_code	pcon_name	sex_of_school_description	phase_type_grouping	type_of_establishment	denomination	admissions_policy	urban_rural	academy_flag	attendance_pattern	sex	school_count	total_pupil_count	aged_0_pupil_count	aged_1_pupil_count	aged_2_pupil_count	aged_3_pupil_count	aged_4_pupil_count	aged_5_pupil_count	aged_6_pupil_count	aged_7_pupil_count	aged_8_pupil_count	aged_9_pupil_count	aged_10_pupil_count	aged_11_pupil_count	aged_12_pupil_count	aged_13_pupil_count	aged_14_pupil_count	aged_15_pupil_count	aged_16_pupil_count	aged_17_pupil_count	aged_18_pupil_count	aged_19_pupil_count
202526	Academic year	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands	E10000007	830	Derbyshire			Mixed	Independent school	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	28	3252	8	19	40	97	114	76	110	131	173	154	202	239	255	276	358	343	318	294	37	8
202526	Academic year	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands	E10000007	830	Derbyshire			Mixed	Independent school	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	Male	28	1866	4	9	20	53	63	36	60	70	96	87	106	156	152	147	216	201	198	171	17	4
202526	Academic year	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands	E10000007	830	Derbyshire			Mixed	Independent school	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	Female	28	1386	4	10	20	44	51	40	50	61	77	67	96	83	103	129	142	142	120	123	20	4
202526	Academic year	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands	E10000007	830	Derbyshire			Mixed	Independent school	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	Full time	Total	28	3107	0	2	15	31	110	71	106	127	170	151	201	238	254	275	356	343	318	294	37	8
202526	Academic year	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands	E10000007	830	Derbyshire			Mixed	Independent school	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	Part time	Total	28	145	8	17	25	66	4	5	4	4	3	3	1	1	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 31 variables

Variable name	Variable description
academy_flag	Academy indicator - Academy or otherwise
admissions_policy	School admissions policy - Selective or otherwise
aged_0_pupil_count	Count of pupils aged 0
aged_1_pupil_count	Count of pupils aged 1
aged_10_pupil_count	Count of pupils aged 10

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Footnotes

1. Totals include state-funded nursery, primary, secondary, alternative provision (AP) schools and special schools, and non-maintained special schools. Does not include independent schools nor general hospital schools. This is because independent and hospital schools submit an aggregate school level census that does not include characteristics breakdowns such as ethnicity, age and language.
2. Prior to 2023/24 schools were required to record pupils' gender, which was coded as male /female and reported in the publication as boys/girls. From 2023/24 the variable has been clarified to reflect the pupil's legal sex and is both recorded and reported as male/female. The figures are reported here as constituting a single time series.

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• API data set name: School characteristics by age ,sex and attendance pattern
• API data set ID: 019e7401-bedb-711a-ae3d-836fbca519f3
• API data set version: 1.0

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Schools and Pupils Statistics Team

Email: schools.statistics@education.gov.uk
Contact name: Schools and Pupils Statistics Team

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