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Step 1 Choose a publication
- Publication
- Schools, pupils and their characteristics
Step 2 Select a data set or featured table
- Data set
- School characteristics - Phase and type, admissions, denomination, urban-rural, gender
Step 3 Choose locations
- National
- England
Step 4 Choose time period
- Time period
- 2015/16 to 2019/20
Step 5 Choose your filters
- Indicators
- Number of schools
- Headcount - Total
- Academy indicator
- Academy
- Independent
- LA Maintained
- Denomination
- Total
- School admissions policy
- Total
- School type
- Total
- School type (detailed)
- Total
- Sex of school description
- Total
- Urban or rural indicator
- Total
Step 6 (current) Explore data
This data is not from the latest releaseView latest data: Academic year 2022/23'School characteristics - Phase and type, admissions, denomination, urban-rural, gender' for Academy, Independent and LA Maintained in England between 2015/16 and 2019/20 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 Number of schools Academy 5,425 6,345 7,469 8,398 9,041 LA Maintained 16,552 15,639 14,527 13,606 12,988 Independent 2,311 2,297 2,320 2,319 2,331 Headcount - Total Academy 3,017,849 3,386,775 3,794,964 4,157,953 4,421,118 LA Maintained 4,958,662 4,699,037 4,358,261 4,080,856 3,892,370 Independent 583,029 583,268 581,873 580,480 576,857 Save table
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- Publication: Schools, pupils and their characteristics, Academic year 2022/23
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