Data set from School capacity

Specialist provision capacity in mainstream schools - national, regional, local authority

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Published 27 March 2025

Last updated 27 March 2025

Total number of specialist provision places in mainstream schools. This includes sixth form places and excludes nursery places. Includes number of pupils on roll from the May 2024 School Census, SEN unit and resourced provision places.

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Data set details

• Theme: Pupils and schools
• Publication: School capacity
• Release: Academic year 2023/24
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Number of schools
  • Number of schools with both primary and secondary places
  • Number of school places
• Filters:
  • School main phase
• Time period: 2022/23 to 2023/24

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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	education_phase	count_schools	count_schools_with_primary_and_secondary_capacity	total_school_places	total_pupils_on_roll	SEND_unit_capacity	resourced_provision_capacity	primary_SEND_unit_capacity	primary_resourced_provision_capacity	secondary_SEND_unit_capacity	secondary_resourced_provision_capacity
202324	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						Total	1781	41	1271141	1142302	9828	19862	6552	11597	3256	8241
202324	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						Primary	1155	2	455569	404438	6541	11443	6529	11440	0	3
202324	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						Secondary	626	39	815572	737864	3287	8419	23	157	3256	8238
202324	Academic year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East				Total	101	3	65379	59120	761	1215	494	702	267	513
202324	Academic year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East				Primary	64	0	20115	17379	476	698	476	698	0	0

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 11 variables

Variable name	Variable description
count_schools	Number of schools
count_schools_with_primary_and_secondary_capacity	Number of schools with both primary and secondary places
education_phase	School main phase
primary_resourced_provision_capacity	Primary resourced provision capacity
primary_SEND_unit_capacity	Primary special educational needs and disabilities unit capacity

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Footnotes

1. Number of pupils on roll for reception year group and above. Taken from the May school census for the relevant academic year, or gathered during the school capacity collection if census data was not available for a school.
2. Schools defined as "primary" include primary and middle deemed primary schools. Capacity excludes nursery places. For middle schools, capacity has been spilt into primary and secondary.
3. Schools defined as "secondary" include secondary, middle-deemed secondary and all-through schools. Capacity includes sixth form places. For middle and all through schools, capacity has been spilt into primary and secondary.

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