Academic year 2023/24

School capacity

School places in primary and secondary state-funded schools including sixth form. Local authorities’ pupil forecasts and planned changes to school places.

Release type
Published

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If you have a specific enquiry about School capacity statistics and data:

Pupil Place Planning team

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

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Telephone: 020 7783 8300

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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

  • Secretary of State for Education
  • Minister for Skills
  • Minister for School Standards
  • Permanent Secretary
  • Communications Special Adviser
  • Press Office Deputy Director
  • Press Office
  • Head of Profession for Statistics
  • Deputy Head of Profession for Statistics
  • Chief Analyst
  • Special Advisers (4)
  • Strategic Finance Director
  • Deputy Director, Central Capital Unit
  • Deputy Director, Free Schools Policy and Programmes
  • Head of Pupil Place Planning 
  • School Places Analysis 
  • School Places Capital (2)
  • School Organisation