Data set from Special educational needs in England

Age and Gender, by type of SEN provision and type of need - 2016 to 2025

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Published 12 June 2025

Last updated 2 October 2025

Number of pupils in state-funded nursery, primary, secondary and special schools, non-maintained special schools and AP schools by SEN provision, type of need, age and sex.

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Data set details

• Theme: Pupils and schools
• Publication: Special educational needs in England
• Release: Academic year 2024/25
• Number of rows: 314,273
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Age 10
  • Age 10 percent
  • Age 11
• Filters:
  • Phase type of school
  • Primary type of need
  • SEN provision
• Time period: 2015/16 to 2024/25

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	region_name	region_code	old_la_code	la_name	new_la_code	phase_type_grouping	sen_status	sen_primary_need	number_of_pupils	pupil_sex_male	pupil_sex_female	age_2_and_under	age_3	age_4	age_5	age_6	age_7	age_8	age_9	age_10	age_11	age_12	age_13	age_14	age_15	age_16	age_17	age_18	age_19_and_over	male_age_2_and_under	male_age_3_lower	male_age_3_middle	male_age_3_upper	male_age_4_lower	male_age_4_middle	male_age_4_upper	male_age_5	male_age_6	male_age_7	male_age_8	male_age_9	male_age_10	male_age_11	male_age_12	male_age_13	male_age_14	male_age_15	male_age_16	male_age_17	male_age_18	male_age_19_and_over	female_age_2_and_under	female_age_3_lower	female_age_3_middle	female_age_3_upper	female_age_4_lower	female_age_4_middle	female_age_4_upper	female_age_5	female_age_6	female_age_7	female_age_8	female_age_9	female_age_10	female_age_11	female_age_12	female_age_13	female_age_14	female_age_15	female_age_16	female_age_17	female_age_18	female_age_19_and_over	age_2_and_under_percent	age_3_percent	age_4_percent	age_5_percent	age_6_percent	age_7_percent	age_8_percent	age_9_percent	age_10_percent	age_11_percent	age_12_percent	age_13_percent	age_14_percent	age_15_percent	age_16_percent	age_17_percent	age_18_percent	age_19_and_over_percent	pupil_sex_male_percent	pupil_sex_female_percent
202425	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						Non-maintained special school	Education, Health and Care plans	Autistic Spectrum Disorder	1539	1238	301	0	1	27	61	53	66	66	73	83	156	137	171	175	180	112	92	82	4	0	0	0	0	3	6	11	38	39	52	57	64	66	127	109	144	141	147	92	74	64	4	0	0	0	1	0	3	4	23	14	14	9	9	17	29	28	27	34	33	20	18	18	0	0	0.064977258	1.754385965	3.963612736	3.443794672	4.288499025	4.288499025	4.743339831	5.393112411	10.13645224	8.90188434	11.11111111	11.37102014	11.69590643	7.277452891	5.977907732	5.328135153	0.259909032	80.44184535	19.55815465
202425	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						Non-maintained special school	Education, Health and Care plans	Down Syndrome	9	8	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11.11111111	0	0	22.22222222	0	11.11111111	0	0	22.22222222	0	22.22222222	0	11.11111111	0	88.88888889	11.11111111
202425	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						Non-maintained special school	Education, Health and Care plans	Hearing Impairment	374	205	169	0	0	3	8	5	6	7	15	16	32	35	47	43	49	44	31	25	8	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	4	2	2	8	10	15	17	33	31	24	22	16	12	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	5	1	4	5	7	6	17	18	14	12	25	22	15	13	4	0	0	0.802139037	2.139037433	1.336898396	1.604278075	1.871657754	4.010695187	4.278074866	8.556149733	9.35828877	12.56684492	11.4973262	13.10160428	11.76470588	8.288770053	6.684491979	2.139037433	54.81283422	45.18716578
202425	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						Non-maintained special school	Education, Health and Care plans	Moderate Learning Difficulty	154	84	70	0	0	1	2	2	2	5	6	6	24	20	12	20	15	16	17	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	4	4	2	15	12	5	12	6	8	8	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	2	1	2	4	9	8	7	8	9	8	9	1	0	0	0	0.649350649	1.298701299	1.298701299	1.298701299	3.246753247	3.896103896	3.896103896	15.58441558	12.98701299	7.792207792	12.98701299	9.74025974	10.38961039	11.03896104	3.896103896	0	54.54545455	45.45454545
202425	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						Non-maintained special school	Education, Health and Care plans	Multi-sensory impairment	26	21	5	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	3	2	1	2	6	2	1	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	3	1	1	1	5	2	1	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3.846153846	11.53846154	0	11.53846154	7.692307692	3.846153846	7.692307692	23.07692308	7.692307692	3.846153846	3.846153846	15.38461538	0	80.76923077	19.23076923

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 88 variables

Variable name	Variable description
age_10	Age 10
age_10_percent	Age 10 percent
age_11	Age 11
age_11_percent	Age 11 percent
age_12	Age 12

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Footnotes

1. Includes state-funded nursery, primary, secondary and special schools, non-maintained special schools and state-funded alternative provision schools. Does not include independent schools.
2. EHC plans also includes statements of SEN. Statements were phased out from 2014 to 2018
3. Please note that Down Syndrome has been recorded as a primary need for the first time in the school census in 2024/25. This addition means that there are likely to be pupils recorded with a primary need of Downs syndrome this year that would have been recorded with a different primary need last year.

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