Data set from School capacity

School sixth form capacity: experimental statistics

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Published 20 August 2020

Last updated 20 August 2020

School sixth form capacity as reported by local authorities; sixth form pupil numbers on roll from the May School Census. School sixth form capacity was collected as a voluntary field in the 2018 and 2019 School Capacity surveys.

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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 schools with reported sixth form capacity
  • Reported sixth form places
  • Sixth form pupils on roll in schools with reported sixth form capacity
• Time period: 2017/18 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	secondary_planning_area_code	school_laestab	school_name	school_phase	schools_sixth_form_capacity_reported	reported_sixth_form_places	sixth_form_pupils_on_roll	total_school_places	total_pupils_on_roll
201819	Academic year	National	E92000001	England										2039 u	533624 u	376973 u
201819	Academic year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East								78 u	20028 u	13795 u
201819	Academic year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West								194 u	47591 u	32108 u
201819	Academic year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000003	Yorkshire and The Humber								167 u	44109 u	31606 u
201819	Academic year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands								190 u	48433 u	32485 u

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Variables in this data set

Table showing all 3 variables

Variable name	Variable description
reported_sixth_form_places	Reported sixth form places
schools_sixth_form_capacity_reported	Number of schools with reported sixth form capacity
sixth_form_pupils_on_roll	Sixth form pupils on roll in schools with reported sixth form capacity

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Footnotes

1. LA reported sixth form capacity data was collected in the May 2019 School Capacity survey as a voluntary field. 80% of LAs with at least one school with pupils on roll in year groups 12, 13 or 14 have submitted complete data (sixth form capacity data submitted for all schools with pupils on roll in year groups 12, 13 or 14) .
2. : - Not available. No sixth form capacity data submitted for schools with pupils on roll in year groups 12, 13 or 14 in this geographic area.
3. Includes sixth form capacity in community, foundation, voluntary and middle schools as deemed. Includes sixth form capacity in academies/free schools. Excludes all special schools.
4. z - Not applicable. no schools with pupils on roll in year groups 12, 13, or 14 in this geographic area.
5. u - Indicates partial sixth form capacity data submitted. Data submitted for some but not all schools with pupils on roll in year groups 12, 13, or 14 in this geographic area.
6. Sixth form pupils on roll includes pupils in year groups 12, 13 and 14 taken from the May 2019 census.

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