Reporting year 2022

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: 29 June 2023
• Last updated: 28 June 2024

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• Quantity of School Places

  Local authority, National

  Quantity of school places added since academic year 2009/10 and planned for 2024/25

  • Number of rows: 153
  • Indicators:
    • Actual Primary Number on Roll 2009/10
    • Actual Secondary Number on Roll 2009/10
    • Anticipated Change in Primary Pupil Numbers from 2022/23 to 2024/25
  • Time period: 2022

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• Local Authority Pupil Forecast Accuracy

  Local authority, National

  Pupil forecast accuracy for academic year 2022/23

  • Number of rows: 153
  • Indicators:
    • Actual primary pupil numbers 2022/23
    • Actual secondary pupil numbers 2022/23
    • One year ahead primary forecast accuracy percentage
  • Time period: 2022

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• Preference Rate for School Applications & Offers

  Local authority, National

  School preference offers from national offer day 2022 and 2023

  • Number of rows: 306
  • 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: 2022/23 to 2023/24

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• Costs of Additional School Places

  National, Regional

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

  • Number of rows: 66
  • Indicators:
    • Cost per additional school place
    • Number of additional school places created
    • Number of projects
  • Filters:
    • Project phase
    • Project type
  • Time period: 2022

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• Quality of School Places - Ofsted Rating

  Local authority, National

  Ofsted quality of school places existing or added between 1st May 2021 and 1st May 2022

  • Number of rows: 306
  • Indicators:
    • Existing Places in Good Schools
    • Existing Places in Inadequate Schools
    • Existing Places in Outstanding Schools
  • Filters:
    • School Phase
  • Time period: 2021/22

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• Quality of school places - Ofsted Rating at school level

  School

  Ofsted quality of school places existing or added between 1st May 2021 and 1st May 2022

  • Number of rows: 19,679
  • Indicators:
    • Ofsted Rating
    • Primary Existing Places
    • Primary New Places
  • Time period: 2021/22

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1 supporting data file

• Scorecard project level cost data

  Project level data used to calculate average cost per place in scorecards

  Download (ods, 228 Kb)

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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 2022. Data used to produce the online interactive dashboard.

Coverage

Local authorities in England.

File formats and conventions

z indicates data is not applicable. x indicates data is not available.

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

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

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