Annual release providing national projections for the number of pupils in schools in England by type of school, age and whether full time or part time.
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National
Actual and projected pupil projection by school type, pupil status and age or age group
Description of the data sets included in this release, including information on data sources, coverage, quality and any data conventions used.
This document describes the data included in the ‘National pupil projections – future trends in pupil numbers: 2022 model, published July 2022’ Official Statistics release’s underlying data file. This data is released under the terms of the Open Government License (opens in new tab) and is intended to meet at least 3 stars for Open Data (opens in new tab).
The methodology document for this subject should be referenced alongside this release. It provides information on the data sources, their coverage and quality and how the data is produced.
This publication contains actual and projected figures for the pupil population up to the age of 15 (at the start of the academic year) for most school types within England.
Figures from the main (principal) projection are provided by the school types of:
For the under 5 age group figures are provided as the full time equivalent (FTE) and headcount due to the number of part time pupils. All other ages, or age groups as appropriate, are provided as FTE only.
Rounding
Figures in the variant projection data file are provided, and rounded, to the nearest thousand.
Conventions
The following convention is used throughout the underlying data.
‘c’ Suppressed (under 500)
‘z’ Not applicable
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