School capacity in England from 2009/10 to 2022/23. 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 2022/23

School capacity in 2022/23 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 in state-funded secondary schools in 2022/23 by local authority

School capacity in 2022/23 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

Pupil forecasts and actual pupil numbers for 2022/23 nto 2029/30 for year groups reception to year 13

Actual pupil numbers for 2022/23 and pupil forecasts for 2023/24 to 2029/30 in England by national curriculum year group

Local authority level primary forecasts and actual pupil numbers for 2022/23 - 2027/28

Actual primary pupil numbers for 2022/23 and primary pupil forecasts for 2023/24 - 2027/28 by local authority

Local authority level secondary forecasts and actual pupil numbers for 2022/23 to 2029/30

Actual pupil numbers and pupil forecasts by local authority, 2022/23 to 2029/30 - SecondaryActual pupil numbers and pupil forecasts by local authority, 2022/23 to 2029/30 - 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 2023/24 to 2025/26

Planned places by local authority, 2023/24 to 2025/26

This includes primary local authority level data on the estimated number of primary places needed to meet modelled demand from 2023/24 to 2027/28.

Estimated number of primary places needed to meet modelled demand from 2023/24 to 2027/28 by local authority (additional need only)

This includes secondary local authority level data on the estimated number of secondary places needed to meet modelled demand from 2023/24 to 2029/30.

Estimated school places needed by local authority, 2023/24 to 2029/30 – Secondary

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, 2022/23

School sixth form capacity, by local authority, 2022/23

Includes the number of pupils on roll, number of school places, number of schools, primary capacity, secondary capacity, number of primary pupils on roll, number of secondary pupils on roll.

Specialist capacity provision in England for 2022/23

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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

2022/23 actual pupil numbers on roll from the January 2023 School Census and local authority forecasts of pupil numbers for 2023/24 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

School places reported by local authorities in summer 2023 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

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 2023 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)

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; SEND unit capacity; resourced provision capacity in mainstream schools.

Specialist provision- mainstream schools, school level

School places in special schools, 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.

Specialist provision- special schools, school level

School places in special schools aggregated to local authority, regional and national level. This 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, primary capacity, secondary capacity, number of primary pupils on roll and number of secondary pupils on roll.

Specialist provision capacity- national, regional, local authority

Specialist provision in mainstream schools aggregated to local authority, regional and national level. 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; SEND unit capacity; resourced provision capacity in mainstream schools.

Specialist provision- mainstream schools, national, regional, local authority

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

Children's social care

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

COVID-19

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

Destination of pupils and students

Including early years foundation stage profile and early years surveys statistics

Early years

Including local authority (LA) and student loan statistics

Finance and funding

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

Further education

Including university graduate employment, graduate labour market and participation statistics

Higher education

Labour market and skills

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

Pupils and schools

School and college outcomes and performance

Including initial teacher training (ITT) statistics

Teachers and school workforce

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

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