Data set from School capacity

Specialist provision capacity - school

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Published 27 March 2025

Last updated 27 March 2025

Total number of school places in special schools. This includes sixth form places and excludes nursery places. Includes number of pupils on roll from the May 2024 School Census.

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Data set details

• Theme: Pupils and schools
• Publication: School capacity
• Release: Academic year 2023/24
• Geographic levels: School
• Indicators:
  • Number of school places
  • Number of pupils on roll
  • Number of primary school places
• Time period: 2022/23 to 2023/24

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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	primary_capacity	secondary_capacity	primary_pupils_on_roll	secondary_pupils_on_roll
202324	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	390	E08000037	Gateshead	1390003	z	3907007	131213	Gibside School	Primary	PS	180	196	180	0	196	0
202324	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	390	E08000037	Gateshead	1390003	z	3907010	133397	Eslington Primary School	Primary	PS	70	74	70	0	74	0
202324	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	390	E08000037	Gateshead	1390003	1390013	3907002	138652	The Cedars Academy	Secondary	AT	238	234	119	119	73	161
202324	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	390	E08000037	Gateshead	z	1390013	3907006	108426	Furrowfield School	Secondary	SS	76	80	0	76	0	80
202324	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	390	E08000037	Gateshead	z	1390013	3907008	130942	Hill Top School	Secondary	SS	120	131	0	120	0	131

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 6 variables

Variable name	Variable description
primary_capacity	Number of primary school places
primary_pupils_on_roll	Number of primary pupils on roll
pupils_on_roll	Number of pupils on roll
school_places	Number of school places
secondary_capacity	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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