Data set from Education and training statistics for the UK

Pupils

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Published 9 November 2023

Last updated 9 November 2023

This file contains information on the number of pupils in the UK, by age, sex and school type.

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Data set details

• Theme: UK education and training statistics
• Publication: Education and training statistics for the UK
• Release: Reporting year 2023
• Geographic levels: National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Number of pupils
• Filters:
  • Age
  • Gender
  • School type
• Time period: 2015/16 to 2022/23

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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	phase	age	gender	t_pupils
201516	Academic year	National	E92000001	England			Non-maintained mainstream	Total	Female	285063
201516	Academic year	National	E92000001	England			Non-maintained mainstream	Total	Male	301884
201516	Academic year	National	E92000001	England			Non-maintained mainstream	Total	Total	586947
201516	Academic year	National	E92000001	England			Nursery	Total	Female	20800
201516	Academic year	National	E92000001	England			Nursery	Total	Male	22929

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Variables in this data set

Table showing all 4 variables

Variable name	Variable description
age	Age
gender	Gender
phase	School type
t_pupils	Number of pupils

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Footnotes

1. Primary and secondary figures include middle schools as deemed. Secondary schools include all-through schools.
2. In England, special schools include alternative provision schools.
3. In Scotland, nursery figures include all providers of funded Early Learning and Childcare, except childminders.
4. Figures for independent schools in Scotland are unavailable.
5. Figures for independent schools in Wales are unavailable for 2019/20.
6. Independent schools includes non-maintained special schools.
7. In Scotland, Early Learning and Childcare pupil numbers by sex are unavailable.
8. In Northern Ireland, independent school pupil numbers by sex are unavailable.

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