Department for Education

Reporting year 2025

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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• Published: 25 June 2026

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• Basic need funding - national, local authority

  Local authority, National

  Basic need funding allocated to Local authorities between 2009/10 and 2027/28

  • Number of rows: 154
  • Indicators:
    • Total Basic Need Allocation 2010/11 to 2027/28
  • Time period: 2025

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• Local authority pupil forecast accuracy - national, local authority

  Local authority, National

  Pupil forecast accuracy for academic year 2025/26

  • Number of rows: 308
  • Indicators:
    • Actual pupil numbers 2025/26
    • One year ahead forecast accuracy percentage
    • SCAP23 forecast pupil numbers on roll 2025/26
  • Filters:
    • School phase
  • Time period: 2025

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• Quantity of school places added - national, local authority

  Local authority, National

  Quantity of school places added since academic year 2009/10 and planned for 2027/28

  • Number of rows: 308
  • Indicators:
    • Actual Number on Roll 2009/10
    • Actual Number on Roll 2014/15
    • Actual Number on Roll 2018/19
  • Filters:
    • School phase
  • Time period: 2025

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• School preference offers - national, local authority

  Local authority, National

  School preference offers from national offer day 2025 and 2026

  • Number of rows: 612
  • Indicators:
    • Percentage of Offers made to Applicants of First Preference
    • Percentage of Offers made to Applicants of One of Top Three Preferences
    • Percentage of Offers made to Applicants of Second Preference
  • Filters:
    • School phase
  • Time period: 2025/26 to 2026/27

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• Quality of school places added - national, local authority

  Local authority, National

  Ofsted, Progress 8 and primary reading and maths progress ratings of school places existing or added between 1st May 2024 and 1st May 2025 at local authority and national level

  • Number of rows: 8,932
  • Indicators:
    • Existing places
    • New places
  • Filters:
    • Rating
    • School phase
  • Time period: 2025

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• Quality school places added - school

  School

  Ofsted, Progress 8 and primary reading and maths progress ratings of school places existing or added between 1st May 2024 and 1st May 2025 at school level

  • Number of rows: 20,158
  • Indicators:
    • Ofsted rating - behaviour and attitudes
    • Ofsted rating - leadership and management
    • Ofsted rating - personal development
  • Time period: 2025

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• Cost of additional school places - national, local authority

  Local authority, National

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

  • Number of rows: 924
  • Indicators:
    • Cost per additional school place
    • Number of additional school places created
    • Number of projects
  • Filters:
    • Project phase
    • Project type
  • Time period: 2025

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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, 224 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 2025. 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:

Pupil Place Planning team

Email: SCAP.PPP@education.gov.uk
Contact name: Josie Brett

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