Data set from Local authority school places scorecards

Cost

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Published 30 June 2022

Last updated 30 June 2022

Cost of additional school places from local authority projects for academic years 2015/16 to 2017/18

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Data set details

• Theme: Pupils and schools
• Publication: Local authority school places scorecards
• Release: Reporting year 2021
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National
• Indicators:
  • Cost per additional school place
  • Number of additional school places created
  • Number of projects
• Filters:
  • Project phase
  • Project type
• Time period: 2021

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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	project_phase	project_type	number_of_projects	cost_per_place	places_created	total_cost_adjusted_for_region_and_inflation_£
2021	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						Primary	New schools	70	21558.67022	23763	512298680.5
2021	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						Primary	Permanent expansions	1204	18006.57394	128436	2312692330
2021	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						Primary	Temporary expansions	616	8571.727308	21294	182526361.3
2021	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						Secondary	New schools	12	26105.34607	11304	295094831.9
2021	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						Secondary	Permanent expansions	144	25003.39167	29815	745476122.7

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 6 variables

Variable name	Variable description
cost_per_place	Cost per additional school place
number_of_projects	Number of projects
places_created	Number of additional school places created
project_phase	Project phase - Filter by Project phase
project_type	Project type - Filter by project type

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Footnotes

1. Local authority average costs are not shown because there is no new data. Only national average costs and number of projects for England are shown
2. LA data contains the England average costs, adjusted for regional location factors. See scorecard methodology or technical notes for more information

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