Data set from Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic

Table 1B - Daily attendance in education settings during the COVID-19 outbreak (excludes half term dates 19th October - 23rd October and 2nd November)

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Published 23 February 2021

Last updated 23 February 2021

This file contains daily attendance data for state-funded education settings for dates excluding half term dates. Half term includes 19th October - 23rd October, and 2nd November.

Data is in this file has been scaled to account for non-response so it is nationally representative.

Further details on the column headings can be found in the “Table 1b variable additions and removal log” ancillary file.

Data set details

Theme: COVID-19
Publication: Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
Release: Week 8 2021
Release type
Geographic levels: National
Indicators: Attendance in all state schools
Attendance in fully open state schools
Number of children attending fully open state schools
Filters: Date
Time period: 2020 Week 37 to 2021 Week 6

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data
time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	date	response_rate_state_schools	number_state_schools_responded	number_open_state_schools_including_schools_on_INSET	proportion_open_state_schools_including_schools_on_INSET	number_fully_open_state_schools	proportion_fully_open_state_schools	number_of_state_schools_with_one_or_more_pupils_self_isolating_due_to_COVID_contact_within_school	proportion_of_state_schools_with_one_or_more_pupils_self_isolating_due_to_COVID_contact_within_school	number_children_attending_state_schools	proportion_children_attending_state_schools	number_children_attending_fully_open_state_schools	proportion_children_attending_fully_open_state_schools	number_pupils_with_SW_attending_state_funded_schools	proportion_pupils_with_SW_attending_state_funded_schools	number_pupils_with_SW_attending_fully_open_state-funded_schools	proportion_pupils_with_SW_attending_in_fully_open_state-funded_schools	number_pupils_with_EHCP_attending_state-funded_schools	proportion_pupils_with_EHCP_attending_state-funded_schools	number_pupils_with_EHCP_attending_fully_open_state-funded_schools	proportion_pupils_with_EHCP_attending_fully_open_state-funded_schools	number_children_of_critical_workers_attending_state_funded_schools
2020	Week 37	National	E92000001	England	09/09/2020	71	15300	21600	99.9	19700	90.9	-	-	7148000	87	6578000	90.3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2020	Week 37	National	E92000001	England	10/09/2020	73	15800	21600	99.9	20000	92.4	-	-	7231000	88	6747000	90	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2020	Week 37	National	E92000001	England	11/09/2020	73	15700	21600	99.9	20100	92.7	-	-	7130000	86.8	6699000	88.7	133000	82.2	125000	84	232000	80.9	217000	83.3	-
2020	Week 38	National	E92000001	England	14/09/2020	75	16200	21600	99.9	20500	94.8	-	-	7118000	86.4	6768000	87.4	133000	82.2	126000	83.2	231000	80.7	218000	82.5	-
2020	Week 38	National	E92000001	England	15/09/2020	76	16400	21600	99.9	20400	94.4	-	-	7145000	86.7	6745000	87.7	133000	81.8	125000	83	231000	80.5	217000	82.3	-

Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 22 variables
Variable name	Variable description
date	Date
number_children_attending_fully_open_state_schools	Number of children attending fully open state schools
number_children_attending_state_schools	Number of children attending state schools
number_children_of_critical_workers_attending_state_funded_schools	Number of children of critical workers attending state-funded schools
number_fully_open_state_schools	Number of fully open state schools

Footnotes

From 12 October, the education settings survey changed and this new metric was added. The changes were made to give more comprehensive data about how many pupils are self-isolating for different reasons. There are no comparable figures to these from previous weeks.
Schools are considered fully open if they are able to provide face-to-face teaching for all pupils on roll for the whole school day and they have not asked a group of pupils to self-isolate. School guidance states that where pupils are unable to attend school because they are complying with clinical or public health advice, schools are expected to be able to immediately offer them access to remote education.
From 12 October, the education settings survey changed and this metric was discontinued. The changes were made to give more comprehensive data about how many pupils are self-isolating for different reasons.
Response rates among state-funded schools fell on 17 December by 7 percentage points compared to the previous day. Some schools reported inset days or non-COVID related closures on 17 December (1% of responders). Schools are not required to complete the form if on a planned holiday, such as Christmas break and, previously, decreases in response rates have been associated with an increase in school closures. As a result, it is likely there is a greater proportion of closures among non-responders than responder and we do not know the distribution of these between i) COVID-related closures and ii) schools starting Christmas holidays or having inset days as planned. Therefore, estimates for 17 December are less reliable than previous days and likely overestimate open and attendance rates.
The following education settings are included: academies (including free schools and studio schools), local authority maintained schools (excluding local authority nursery schools), non-maintained special schools, alternative provision and university technical colleges.
Due to poor weather conditions in parts of England, there was an increase in non-COVID related closures on 14, 15, 25 and 26 January, and 2, 8, 9, 10 and 11 February.
All national level figures are adjusted for non-response. Regional and local authority level figures are based on responding schools only. See accompanying document for full methodology.
Pupils with a social worker are considered ‘children in need’. Our analysis after adjusting for non-response suggests that schools may be under-reporting the number of children with a social worker when compared to the most recently published children in need statistics. Therefore these estimates only account for pupils with a social worker that are identified by schools.
From 12 October, schools were asked to exclude nursery children from their submission. A corresponding decrease was observed in submitted number on roll in schools with nurseries.
On 25 September and 2 October, 1% of state-funded schools reported an inset or training day. Schools or colleges with inset or training days are considered as 'open' but not 'fully open'.
On Wednesday 7th October, a burst water pipe in East London resulted in a number of schools closing.

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Table 1B - Daily attendance in education settings during the COVID-19 outbreak (excludes half term dates 19th October - 23rd October and 2nd November)

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