Data set from School capacity

School capacity - national only

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Published 20 August 2020

Last updated 20 August 2020

Includes number of school places; yearly and cumulative change in the number of school places; number of pupils on roll from the May School Census; the number of schools at or in excess of capacity and the number of pupils in places that exceed their school's capacity; the number schools with one or more unfilled places and the number of unfilled places. All data includes sixth form places and excludes nursery places.

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Data set details

• Theme: Pupils and schools
• Publication: School capacity
• Release: Academic year 2018/19
• Geographic levels: National
• Indicators:
  • Number of pupils on roll
  • Number of school places
  • Number of school places - change since 2010
• Filters:
  • School phase
• Time period: 2009/10 to 2018/19

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	school_main_phase	count_schools	school_places	school_places_yearly_change	school_places_change_from_200910	pupils_on_roll	at_or_over_capacity_schools	percent_at_or_over_capacity_schools	pupils_over_capacity	percent_pupils_over_capacity	under_capacity_schools	percent_under_capacity_schools	unfilled_places	percent_unfilled_places
201819	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Total	20158	8793981	82610	1003336	7740594	3902	19.35707908	50396	0.573073788	16254	80.63299931	1103643	12.54998163
201819	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Primary	16769	4896469	33140	668942	4439571	3340	19.91770529	25481	0.520395411	13428	80.07633133	482335	9.850669942
201819	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Secondary	3389	3897512	49470	334394	3301023	562	16.58306285	24915	0.639253965	2826	83.38742992	621308	15.94114399
201718	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Total	20147	8711371	95930	920726	7654797	4031	20.00794163	49603	0.569405206	16114	79.98213133	1105991	12.69594648
201718	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Primary	16771	4863329	59172	635802	4423856	3519	20.98264862	27441	0.564243135	13251	79.01138871	466824	9.598857079

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 14 variables

Variable name	Variable description
at_or_over_capacity_schools	Number of schools at or in excess of capacity
count_schools	Number of schools
percent_at_or_over_capacity_schools	Percentage of schools at or in excess of capacity
percent_pupils_over_capacity	Pupils in places that exceed their school's capacity as a percentage of total places
percent_under_capacity_schools	Percentage of schools with one or more unfilled places

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Footnotes

1. For free schools, number of school places includes final intended capacity. Otherwise, number of school places counts all built and ready-to-use accommodation. Some free schools are initially in temporary accommodation and may not reach final intended capacity for varying periods of time.
2. Includes community, foundation, voluntary and middle schools as deemed. Includes academies/free schools. Excludes all special schools. Includes sixth form places. Excludes nursery places.
3. Number of pupils in places that exceed their school's capacity is the difference between school capacity and number of pupils on roll, calculated at school level and then aggregated to national, regional or local authority level.
4. z - Indicates data is not applicable.
5. 2009/10 national, regional and local authority aggregations exclude 13 secondary academies where no school capacity figure was provided. They are included in the school-level underlying data.

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