Reporting Year 2019

Local authority school places scorecards

This is the latest data

Published: 29 September 2020
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The scorecard release provides a snapshot of the progress local authorities in England are making in delivering good quality primary and secondary school places in 2019.

Information is included on:

how many places have been delivered from 2009/10 to 2018/19, as of 1 May 2019
how many places are planned to be delivered for academic year 2021/22
the quality of places delivered between 2017/18 and 2018/19
forecasting accuracy of local authorities
how well parental preference is met
basic need capital funding allocated to each local authority to create new places from 2011 to 2022
the cost of providing places (for academic years 2015/16 to 2017/18 adjusted for inflation)

This release was first published at local authority school places scorecards: 2019 on 25 June 2020. The scorecard summary data has been migrated to the Explore Education Statistics platform to improve user access, although the local authority interactive scorecard is still available at the link above.

National level, local authority and school level data are provided in the data files associated with this release (school level data is only provided in the cost file and separate school level quality file).

All underlying data files may be found in the ‘Download associated files’ dropdown below:

Headline facts and figures - 2019

Summary

This release has been made to migrate the Local Authority School Places Scorecards 2019 summary data to the Explore Education Statistics platform. The scorecards display a snapshot of the progress local authorities are making in delivering good quality school places. No commentary is usually made alongside this data or the scorecard, but it complements the main School Capacity release in which headlines can be found.