Academic year 2023/24

National Tutoring Programme

Data guidance

Published 14 December 2023

Description

Statistics for the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) for academic year 2023/24. This includes statistics on courses started by pupils, school participation and pupil characteristics. The pupil characteristics included are: Free School Meals eligibility in the last six years, Special Educational Needs status, ethnicity and gender. 

Coverage

The statistics and data for delivery cover England, including regional and local authority breakdowns. The data is also broken down by school phase. 

Files, formats and conventions

The files are in .csv format. 

Data files

All data files associated with this releases are listed below with guidance on their content. To download any of these files, please visit our data catalogue.

NTP Delivery 2023/24 in-year data up to May 2024

• Filename: ntp_delivery_in-year_2023-24_2024-07-25.csv
• Geographic levels: Local authority; National; Regional
• Time period: 2021 August to 2024 May
• Content:

  In-year data about the delivery of the National Tutoring Programme during the 2023/24 academic year.

  The file contains the school participation and the number of courses started based on the Spring 2023/24 School Census on 18th January 2024, and the Summer 2023/24 School Census on 16th May 2024.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
estimated_course_starts_by_pupils	Course starts by pupils
percentage_schools_participating	Percentage of schools Participating in NTP
school_phase	Phase of education
total_schools	Total schools
total_schools_participating	Total School Participating in NTP
total_type	Total since start of NTP or Total in academic year

Footnotes

1. Figures may not always sum to totals exactly due to rounding. 
2. This data contains estimates of courses started by pupils during 2023/24 and courses delivered in completed academic years. 
3. School participation is identified based on responses to the School Census. See methodology for further information.
4. Estimates of the number of courses is based on hours of tutoring received. Pupils may undertake more than one course. See the methodology for further details. 
5. Total schools includes all open schools with pupils aged between 5 and 16, as defined in the methodology.
6. Delivery of tutoring in Independent Special Schools and centrally arranged for Looked After Children is not measured in the school census and is therefore not included here. 
7. The latest in-year NTP delivery data is based on responses to the Summer 2023/24 School Census on 16 May 2024.
8. The in-year estimated course starts based on the Autumn (October) 2023 School Census  (first published in December 2023) were corrected in the May 2024 publication. Please see the About this statistics publication for details.

NTP Pupil Characteristics in-year data up to January 2024

• Filename: ntp_pupil_characteristics_2023-24_2024-07-25.csv
• Geographic levels: National; Regional
• Time period: 2023 October to 2024 January
• Content:

  Characteristics of pupils receiving tutoring through the NTP for England, regions, and school phase in the 2023/24 academic year, based on the delivery of tutoring up to the Spring School Census on 18th January 2024.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
characteristic	Characteristic
characteristic_group	Characteristic group
denominator	Denominator
number_of_pupils	Number of pupils
percent_of_pupils	Percentage of pupils
school_phase	Phase of education

Footnotes

1. Figures may not always sum to totals exactly due to rounding. 
2. Delivery of tutoring in Independent Special Schools and centrally arranged for Looked After Children is not measured in the school census and is therefore not included here. 
3. Pupil characteristics for the delivery of tutoring are reported for male and female based on sex rather than gender, since January 2024. This change is due to a change in the items contained within the School Census.
4. These estimates are based on data from the School Census. Pupil characteristics are based on the Spring 2024 School Census. Information on pupils in receipt of tutoring is taken from the Spring 2024 School Census. See the methodology for further information.