Data set from School capacity

School capacity

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Published 20 August 2020

Last updated 20 August 2020

Includes 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: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Number of pupils on roll
  • Number of school places
  • Number of schools
• 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	region_code	region_name	old_la_code	new_la_code	la_name	primary_planning_area_code	secondary_planning_area_code	school_laestab	school_name	school_main_phase	school_phase	count_schools	school_places	pupils_on_roll	primary_capacity	secondary_capacity	at_or_over_capacity_schools	pupils_over_capacity	percent_pupils_over_capacity	under_capacity_schools	unfilled_places	percent_unfilled_places
201819	Academic year	National	E92000001	England										Total		20158	8793981	7740594			3902	50396	0.573074	16254	1103643	12.549982
201819	Academic year	National	E92000001	England										Primary		16769	4896469	4439571			3340	25481	0.520395	13428	482335	9.85067
201819	Academic year	National	E92000001	England										Secondary		3389	3897512	3301023			562	24915	0.639254	2826	621308	15.941144
201819	Academic year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East								Total		1035	410707	355316			147	2093	0.509609	888	57484	13.996353
201819	Academic year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East								Primary		859	226699	200810			118	894	0.394356	741	26783	11.814344

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 10 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_pupils_over_capacity	Pupils in places that exceed their school's capacity as a percentage of total places
percent_unfilled_places	Unfilled places as a percentage of total places
pupils_on_roll	Number of pupils on roll

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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.
6. Number on roll figures are taken from the summer (May) census for the relevant academic year, except for new schools (including schools that have become academies) where figures are based on data gathered during the school capacity collection. Number on roll relates to pupils in reception year group and above.

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