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'Pupil characteristics - free school meals, ethnicity and language' from 'Schools, pupils and their characteristics'

• Created: 26 October 2020

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'Pupil characteristics - free school meals, ethnicity and language' for Non-maintained special school, Pupil referral unit, State-funded nursery, State-funded primary, State-funded secondary and 2 other filters in England, London, North East, North West, West Midlands and 1 other location between 2018/19 and 2019/20

		England		London		North East		North West		West Midlands		Yorkshire and the Humber
		2018/19	2019/20	2018/19	2019/20	2018/19	2019/20	2018/19	2019/20	2018/19	2019/20	2018/19	2019/20
Non-maintained special school	Headcount	838	861	88	89	76	86	135	131	10	12	97	94
	Percent	22.8	22.7	31.4	31.9	21.4	24.7	21.8	19.4	14.9	18.8	37.0	34.6
Pupil referral unit	Headcount	6,855	7,168	1,027	1,076	380	490	1,468	1,430	951	922	962	981
	Percent	42.5	46.6	35.4	40.0	44.3	51.4	47.0	48.8	53.8	54.9	48.3	51.4
State-funded nursery	Headcount	2,806	2,837	918	938	110	98	206	176	655	645	95	100
	Percent	6.6	6.7	10.0	10.1	3.6	3.2	3.3	2.9	10.0	9.9	3.3	3.4
State-funded primary	Headcount	745,453	835,776	123,164	132,736	49,364	54,780	119,647	134,075	98,103	110,544	86,825	96,242
	Percent	15.8	17.7	16.6	18.0	22.0	24.4	18.2	20.4	18.7	21.1	17.7	19.7
State-funded secondary	Headcount	468,779	543,187	91,971	103,246	29,364	33,660	72,094	82,889	61,531	71,945	53,466	61,709
	Percent	14.1	15.9	17.4	19.0	18.7	21.2	16.8	18.8	16.4	18.7	16.2	18.3
State-funded special school	Headcount	46,210	50,959	7,057	7,830	3,477	3,791	7,463	8,264	6,613	7,212	4,066	4,436
	Percent	38.3	40.1	41.6	43.7	46.5	48.9	42.1	43.8	39.6	41.5	40.2	41.7
Total	Headcount	1,270,941	1,440,788	224,225	245,915	82,771	92,905	201,013	226,965	167,863	191,280	145,511	163,562
	Percent	15.4	17.3	17.2	18.8	21.0	23.5	18.1	20.2	18.1	20.5	17.4	19.4

Source: Schools, pupils and their characteristics, Pupil characteristics - free school meals, ethnicity and language

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