School capacity
School places in primary and secondary state-funded schools including sixth form. Local authorities’ pupil forecasts and planned changes to school places.
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- Department for Education
- Published
- Last updated
Get help by contacting us
If you have a specific enquiry about School capacity statistics and data:
Pupil Place Planning team
Email: SCAP.PPP@education.gov.ukContact name: Robert Miller
Press office
If you have a media enquiry:
Telephone: 020 7783 8300
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If you have a general enquiry about the Department for Education (DfE) or education:
Phone: 0370 000 2288
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Official statistics
These are Official Statistics and have been produced in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics (opens in new tab).
This can be broadly interpreted to mean that these statistics are:
- managed impartially and objectively in the public interest
- meet identified user needs
- produced according to sound methods
- well explained and readily accessible
Find out more about the standards we follow to produce these statistics through our Standards for official statistics published by DfE guidance (opens in new tab).
Our statistical practice is regulated by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR).
OSR sets the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics (opens in new tab) that all producers of official statistics should adhere to.
You are welcome to contact us directly with any comments about how we meet these standards. Alternatively, you can contact OSR by emailing regulation@statistics.gov.uk or via the OSR website (opens in new tab).
Pre-release access list
Besides Department for Education (DfE) professional and production staff, the following post holders were given pre-release access up to 24 hours before release.
- Secretary of State for Education
- Minister for the School System and Finance
- Minister for Children, Families and Wellbeing
- Permanent Secretary
- Deputy Permanent Secretary
- Parliamentary and Communications Special Adviser
- Schools, Children and Families Special Adviser
- Skills and Higher Education, Further Education Special Adviser
- Social Media and Digital Comms Special Adviser
- Head of Profession for Statistics
- Deputy Head of Profession for Statistics
- Chief Analyst
- Press Office Deputy Director
- Press Office
- Head of Pupil Place Planning
- Pupil Place Planning Project Management Office (3)
- School Places Analysis Team, Regions Group (2)
- Strategic Finance Director
- Deputy Director, Central Capital Unit
- School Places Capital (3)
- Head of School Organisation and Transport Unit
- Team Leader, School Organisation
- Team Leader, School Places Analysis
- Deputy Director, Free Schools Policy and Programmes
- Team Leader, Free Schools Governance and Sufficiency
- Director General for Families Group
- Director, Special Educational Needs & Disability and Alternative Provision