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Academic year 2022/23

Number of schools with reported sixth form capacity, reported sixth form places and Sixth form pupils on roll in schools with reported sixth form capacity, by local authority, 2021/22

  School sixth form capacity, by local authority, 2021/22

Local authority level primary forecasts and actual pupil numbers for 2021/22 - 2026/27

Actual pupil numbers and pupil forecasts by local authority, 2021/22 to 2026/27 - Primary

Local authority level secondary forecasts and actual pupil numbers for 2021/22 to 2028/29

Actual pupil numbers and pupil forecasts by local authority, 2021/22 to 2028/29 - Secondary

Pupil forecasts and actual pupil numbers for 2021/22 to 2028/29  for year groups reception to year 13

Actual pupil numbers and pupil forecasts in England, 2021/22 to 2028/29

This includes primary local authority level data on  the estimated number of primary places needed to meet modelled demand from 2022/23 to 2026/27.

Estimated school places needed by local authority, 2022/23 to 2026/27 – Primary

This includes secondary local authority level data on  the estimated number of secondary places needed to meet modelled demand from 2022/23 to 2028/29.

Estimated school places needed by local authority, 2022/23 to 2028/29 – Secondary

This includes local authority level data for primary and secondary schools on: planned additional places (permanent), bulge places (temporary for large cohort) and p laces to remove (permanent) from 2022/23 to 2024/25

Planned places by local authority, 2022/23 to 2024/25 

School capacity in 2021/22 by local authority for primary schools. This includes: number of schools, number of school places, number of pupils on roll, number of schools at or in excess of capacity, pupils in places that exceed their school's capacity, pupils in places that exceed their school's capacity as a percentage of total places, number of schools with one or more unfilled places, unfilled places and unfilled places as a percentage of total places

School capacity by local authority, 2021/22 – Primary

School capacity in 2021/22 by local authority for secondary schools. This includes: number of schools, number of school places, number of pupils on roll, number of schools at or in excess of capacity, pupils in places that exceed their school's capacity, pupils in places that exceed their school's capacity as a percentage of total places, number of schools with one or more unfilled places, unfilled places and unfilled places as a percentage of total places

School capacity by local authority, 2021/22 – Secondary

School capacity in England from 2009/10 to 2021/22. This includes: number of schools	, number of school places, number of pupils on roll, number of schools at or in excess of capacity, pupils in places that exceed their school's capacity, pupils in places that exceed their school's capacity as a percentage of total places, number of schools with one or more unfilled places, unfilled places and unfilled places as a percentage of total places

School capacity in England, 2009/10 to 2021/22

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Total number of school places, which includes sixth form places and excludes nursery places, reported by local authorities. Includes yearly and long-term change in the number of school places. File also includes 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.&nbsp;

School capacity - national only

Total number of school places, which includes sixth form places and excludes nursery places, reported by local authorities. File also includes 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.&nbsp;

School capacity - national, regional, local authority 

School places, which includes sixth form places and excludes nursery places, reported by local authorities. File also includes number of pupils on roll from the May School Census; &nbsp;the number of pupils in places that exceed their school's capacity and the number of unfilled places.&nbsp;

School capacity

Total number of sixth form places as reported voluntarily by local authorities; sixth form pupil numbers on roll from the May School Census.&nbsp;

Sixth form capacity - national, regional, local authority

School sixth form places as reported voluntarily by local authorities; sixth form pupil numbers on roll from the May School Census.&nbsp;

School sixth form capacity

School places reported by local authorities in summer 2022 as planned to be added or permanently removed from their school capacity. Includes only projects with firm plans for delivery. Includes national curriculum year groups from reception to Year 13.

Local authority planned changes to school places

2021/22 actual pupil numbers on roll from the January 2022 School Census and local authority forecasts of pupil numbers for 2022/23 onwards. File also includes school places expected to be funded by housing developer contribution (HDC) agreements and housing infrastructure fund (HIF) agreements. Includes national curriculum year groups from reception to Year 13.

Local authority pupil forecasts

Estimates of future school places needed to meet modelled demand, calculated at planning area level and aggregated to local authority, regional and national level. Estimates reflect the position reported by local authorities at May 2022 through the School Capacity survey, supplemented with DFE internal data on central programmes which will add or remove school places. Includes national curriculum year groups from reception to Year 11.

Estimates of future school place demand - places needed, spare places (place planning)

Including children in need and child protection, children looked after and social work workforce statistics

Children's social care

Children in need and child protection

Children looked after

Children's social work workforce

Outcomes for children in social care

Secure children's homes

Serious incident notifications

Including Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak

COVID-19

Attendance

CO2 monitors

Confirmed cases reported by Higher Education providers

Devices

Testing

Including not in education, employment or training (NEET) statistics

Destination of pupils and students

Destinations of key stage 4 and 16-18 pupils

NEET and participation

Including early years foundation stage profile and early years surveys statistics

Early years

Childcare and early years

Early years foundation stage profile

Early years surveys

Including local authority (LA) and student loan statistics

Finance and funding

Local authority and school finance

Student loan forecasts

Including advanced learner loan, benefit claimant and apprenticeship and traineeship statistics

Further education

Further education and skills

Further education outcomes

Further education workforce

Including university graduate employment, graduate labour market and participation statistics

Higher education

Education exports

Foundation years

Higher education graduate employment and earnings

Higher level learners in England

Participation measures in higher education

Widening participation in higher education

Including absence, application and offers, capacity, exclusion and special educational needs (SEN) statistics

Pupils and schools

Academy transfers

Admission appeals

Elective home education and children missing education

Exclusions

Parental responsibility measures

Pupil absence

Pupil projections

School and pupil numbers

School applications

Special educational needs (SEN)

Young offenders

School and college outcomes and performance

16 to 19 attainment

GCSEs (key stage 4)

Key stage 1

Key stage 2

Multi-academy trust performance measures

Including initial teacher training (ITT) statistics

Teachers and school workforce

Initial teacher training (ITT)

School workforce

Including summarised expenditure, post-compulsory education, qualification and school statistics

	Primary							Secondary
	Local authority pupil forecasts (includes 2021/22 actual pupil numbers)
	Reception	Year 01	Year 02	Year 03	Year 04	Year 05	Year 06	Year 07	Year 08	Year 09	Year 10	Year 11	Year 12	Year 13
2021/22	613,569	632,089	631,121	630,796	642,560	657,010	656,470	629,975	620,259	622,151	598,292	574,206	220,029	200,870
2022/23	608,805	620,167	637,711	635,760	635,633	646,964	661,523	648,574	632,777	623,790	625,366	598,674	227,725	203,335
2023/24	597,470	615,034	625,233	642,017	640,193	639,702	651,366	650,979	651,336	635,709	626,723	626,021	236,097	209,841
2024/25	583,203	603,088	619,639	629,261	646,143	644,050	643,982	640,863	653,571	653,903	638,413	627,249	244,721	217,835
2025/26	578,689	588,298	607,498	623,125	633,156	649,606	647,756	634,040	643,040	655,915	656,221	638,579	245,330	225,471
2026/27	581,568	583,334	592,271	610,858	626,774	636,290	652,846	635,296	635,772	645,205	658,024	656,248	249,210	226,166
2027/28	no data	no data	no data	no data	no data	no data	no data	638,779	636,956	637,706	647,036	657,698	255,104	229,714
2028/29	no data	no data	no data	no data	no data	no data	no data	627,029	640,107	638,626	639,527	646,585	255,766	234,904

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