Reporting year 2021

Local authority school places scorecards

School Places scorecard for local authorities in England. School places delivered, planned and needed, pupil forecasting accuracy, cost of school places.

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• Produced by: Department for Education
• Published: 30 June 2022
• Last updated: 5 July 2023

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• Quality

  Local authority, National

  Ofsted quality of school places added between 1st May 2019 and 1st May 2021

  • Number of rows: 307
  • Indicators:
    • Existing Places in Good Schools
    • Existing Places in Inadequate Schools
    • Existing Places in Outstanding Schools
  • Filters:
    • School Phase
  • Time period: 2020/21

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• Preference

  Local authority, National

  School preference offers from national offer day 2021

  • Number of rows: 154
  • Indicators:
    • Percentage of Offers made to Applicants of First Primary Preference
    • Percentage of Offers made to Applicants of First Secondary Preference
    • Percentage of Offers made to Applicants of One of Top Three Primary Preferences
  • Time period: 2021

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• Cost

  Local authority, National

  Cost of additional school places from local authority projects for academic years 2015/16 to 2017/18

  • Number of rows: 919
  • Indicators:
    • Cost per additional school place
    • Number of additional school places created
    • Number of projects
  • Filters:
    • Project phase
    • Project type
  • Time period: 2021

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• Pupil forecast accuracy

  Local authority, National

  Pupil forecast accuracy for academic year 2020/21

  • Number of rows: 154
  • Indicators:
    • Actual primary pupil numbers 2021/22
    • Actual secondary pupil numbers 2021/22
    • One year ahead primary forecast accuracy percentage
  • Time period: 2021

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• Quantity

  Local authority, National

  Quantity of school places added since academic year 2009/10

  • Number of rows: 154
  • Indicators:
    • Actual Primary Number on Roll 2009/10
    • Actual Secondary Number on Roll 2009/10
    • Estimated Number of Additional Primary Places Needed to Meet Demand in 2023/24
  • Time period: 2021

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Supporting files

Supporting files provide an area for teams to supply non-standard files for download by users where required.

3 supporting data files

• Local authority Primary Places Scorecard Data 2021

  Summary scorecard data for primary school places for all local authorities in England.

  Download (xlsx, 282 Kb)

• Local authority Secondary Places Scorecard Data 2021

  Summary scorecard data for secondary school places for all local authorities in England.

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• Scorecard 2021 Quality & Cost Underlying Data

  School level data and project level data used to calculate quality and cost measures in scorecards

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Data guidance

Description of the data sets included in this release, including information on data sources, coverage, quality and any data conventions used.

Description

Underlying data for the Local Authority School Places Scorecard 2021. Data used to produce the online interactive dashboard.

Coverage

Local authorities in England.

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z indicates data is not applicable.

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If you have a specific enquiry about Local authority school places scorecards statistics and data:

Pupil Place Planning team

Email: SCAP.PPP@education.gov.uk
Contact name: Robert Miller

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