Academic year 2019/20

School places sufficiency survey

Significant changes to primary and secondary state-funded school places, collected in one-off voluntary survey of local authorities in 2020.

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• Produced by: Department for Education
• Published: 25 March 2021

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• Local Authority Planned Places - Secondary

  Number of local authority planned additional places in secondary mainstream schools that relied on ongoing building work at the time of the survey. Data shown for those local authorities that responded to the survey by the deadline.

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• Local Authority Planned Places - Primary

  Number of local authority planned additional places in primary mainstream schools that relied on ongoing building work at the time of the survey. Data shown for those local authorities that responded to the survey by the deadline.

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• Local authority planned places

  Local authority

  Mainstream places reported by the local authorities that responded to the survey, as planned to be added to their school capacity. Includes only projects with firm plans for delivery which rely on ongoing building work.

  • Number of rows: 389
  • Indicators:
    • Additional school places planned for delivery (permanent and temporary)
  • Filters:
    • Planning area phase
  • Time period: 2021/22 to 2023/24

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Description of the data sets included in this release, including information on data sources, coverage, quality and any data conventions used.

Description

This document describes the transparency data included in the ‘School places sufficiency survey: Academic year 2019/20’ release’s underlying data files. 

The methodology accompanying this release should be referenced alongside this data. It provides information on the data sources, their coverage and quality as well as explaining methodology used in producing the data. 

Coverage

This release reports on school places sufficiency information in some state-funded primary and secondary schools in England in the academic year 2019/20, as of 1 May 2020. Data are as reported by local authorities in the voluntary 2020 September Sufficiency Survey. 

Information is included on: 

• Transparency statistics on school capacity (number of school places) in 2019/20 for some schools with significant changes since 2018/19
• Transparency statistics on the type of significant changes to school capacity between 2018/19 and 2019/20
• Transparency statistics on some local authority planned places to 2021/22, including some planned places for 2022/23 and 2023/24

File formats and conventions

Rounding 

These datasets have not had suppression applied. 

Conventions 

The following conventions are used throughout the underlying data. 

‘z’ Not applicable. 

‘:’ Not available. 

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Email: SCAP.PPP@education.gov.uk
Contact name: Natalie Paterson
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