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- Publication
- Special educational needs in England
Step 2 Select a data set or featured table
- Data set
- 01 - Pupils in all schools, by type of SEN provision - including independent schools and general hospital schools - 2016 to 2021
Step 3 Choose locations
- National
- England
Step 4 Choose time period
- Time period
- 2019/20 to 2020/21
Step 5 Choose your filters
- Indicators
- EHC plans/Statements of SEN
- EHC plans/Statements of SEN (percent)
- Headcount
- SEN support
- SEN support (percent)
- Hospital school flag
- Total
- Phase type of school
- Total
- Independent school
- Non-maintained special school
- Pupil referral unit
- State-funded nursery
- School type detail
- Total
Step 6 (current) Explore data
This data is not from the latest releaseView latest data: Academic year 2022/23'01 - Pupils in all schools, by type of SEN provision - including independent schools and general hospital schools - 2016 to 2021' for Independent school, Non-maintained special school, Pupil referral unit, State-funded nursery, State-funded primary and 2 other filters in England between 2019/20 and 2020/21 2019/20 2020/21 Total Headcount 8,890,345 8,911,887 EHC plans/Statements of SEN 294,758 325,618 EHC plans/Statements of SEN (percent) 3.3 3.7 SEN support 1,079,000 1,083,083 SEN support (percent) 12.1 12.2 State-funded nursery Headcount 42,110 37,865 EHC plans/Statements of SEN 376 540 EHC plans/Statements of SEN (percent) 0.9 1.4 SEN support 5,779 5,038 SEN support (percent) 13.7 13.3 State-funded primary Headcount 4,714,772 4,660,264 EHC plans/Statements of SEN 83,438 95,601 EHC plans/Statements of SEN (percent) 1.8 2.1 SEN support 602,616 586,926 SEN support (percent) 12.8 12.6 State-funded secondary Headcount 3,409,277 3,493,507 EHC plans/Statements of SEN 60,229 68,370 EHC plans/Statements of SEN (percent) 1.8 2.0 SEN support 379,193 401,563 SEN support (percent) 11.1 11.5 State-funded special school Headcount 128,146 134,176 EHC plans/Statements of SEN 125,498 132,306 EHC plans/Statements of SEN (percent) 97.9 98.6 SEN support 2,262 1,596 SEN support (percent) 1.8 1.2 Non-maintained special school Headcount 3,787 3,924 EHC plans/Statements of SEN 3,686 3,850 EHC plans/Statements of SEN (percent) 97.3 98.1 SEN support 85 63 SEN support (percent) 2.2 1.6 Pupil referral unit Headcount 15,396 12,785 EHC plans/Statements of SEN 2,520 3,064 EHC plans/Statements of SEN (percent) 16.4 24.0 SEN support 9,997 7,511 SEN support (percent) 64.9 58.7 Independent school Headcount 576,857 569,366 EHC plans/Statements of SEN 19,011 21,887 EHC plans/Statements of SEN (percent) 3.3 3.8 SEN support 79,068 80,386 SEN support (percent) 13.7 14.1 Footnotes
- Totals include state-funded nursery, primary, secondary and special schools, non-maintained special schools, pupil referral units and independent schools
- SEN support in Independent schools refers to pupils recognised as having SEN but without an EHC plan
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- Publication: Special educational needs in England, Academic year 2022/23
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