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Time series - Number of academies and pupils in academies
Cross Border Movements - National by school type
Time series - Number of schools and pupils, by type of school
Academic year 2019/20
Schools, pupils and their characteristics
School and pupil statistics for England including age, gender, free school meals (FSM), ethnicity, English as additional language (EAL), class size.
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Pupil characteristics - free school meals, ethnicity and language
Local authority, National, Regional
Number of pupils in state-funded nursery, primary, secondary and special schools, non-maintained special schools and pupil referral units by free school meal eligibility, language and ethnicity.
- Number of rows
- 143,821
- Indicators
- Headcount
- Percent
- Filters
- Ethnicity
- First language
- Free School Meals
- Time period
- 2015/16 to 2019/20
Cross border movement tables
Local authority, National, Regional
Number of pupils broken down by local authority in which they reside and local authority in which they attend school.
- Number of rows
- 11,527
- Indicators
- Barking and Dagenham
- Barnet
- Barnsley
- Filters
- Boarder status
- School type
- Year group
- Time period
- 2019/20
School characteristics - Phase and type, admissions, denomination, urban-rural, gender
Local authority, National, Regional
Number of schools in England, by type, phase, denomination, admission policy, gender, urban/rural and academy status including headcounts and fte, ethnicity, fsm, age and national curriculum year breakdowns
- Number of rows
- 90,215
- Indicators
- Any other Asian background ethnic background
- Any other black background ethnic background
- Any other ethnic group ethnic background
- Filters
- Academy indicator
- Denomination
- School admissions policy
- Time period
- 2015/16 to 2019/20
Alternative provision - gender, age, free school meals and ethnicity
Local authority, National, Regional
Number of pupils in alternative provision, by age, gender, ethnicity and free school meal status
- Number of rows
- 58,081
- Indicators
- Headcount
- Filters
- Ethnicity
- Free school meals
- Pupil age
- Time period
- 2017/18 to 2019/20
Class sizes - state-funded primary and secondary schools
Local authority, National, Regional
Class size information for state-funded primary and secondary schools including information on lawful and unlawful large class sizes.
- Number of rows
- 34,237
- Indicators
- Average class size
- ExceptionAPupils
- ExceptionBPupils
- Filters
- Key stage of class
- Phase of school
- Primary or secondary class
- Time period
- 2015/16 to 2019/20
Pupil characteristics - pupil age and gender
Local authority, National, Regional
Number of pupils in state-funded nursery, primary, secondary and special schools, non-maintained special schools, pupil referral units and independent schools by age and gender
- Number of rows
- 419,776
- Indicators
- Full time equivalent
- Full time pupils
- Headcount
- Filters
- Pupil age
- Pupil gender
- School type
- Time period
- 2015/16 to 2019/20
Pupil characteristics - national curriculum year and gender
Local authority, National, Regional
Number of pupils in state-funded nursery, primary, secondary and special schools, non-maintained special schools, pupil referral units and independent schools by national curriculum year and gender.
- Number of rows
- 352,675
- Indicators
- Full time equivalent
- Full time pupils
- Headcount
- Filters
- Pupil gender
- School type
- Year group
- Time period
- 2015/16 to 2019/20
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4 supporting data files
school level underlying data - class sizes
school level underlying data
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Metadata
Data guidance
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 data included in the ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ National Statistics release’s underlying data files. 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 publication methodology, available on the publication report, 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 provides information on the number of schools and pupils in:
- state-funded primary schools
- state-funded secondary schools
- state-funded special schools
- non-maintained special schools
- pupil referral units
- independent schools
- local authority alternative provision
It includes information on:
- pupil numbers, including headcount and fte, gender, ethnicity, language and free school meals eligibility
- school numbers, including school type, academy status, denomination, admission policy, urban/rural and gender
The information is based on data collected via the pupil level spring school census, school level annual school census, general hospital schools census and alternative provision census.
File formats and conventions
Rounding
This dataset has not had suppression applied.
Conventions
The following convention is used throughout the underlying data.
‘:’ Not applicable.
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Schools and Pupils Statistics Team
Email: schools.statistics@education.gov.ukContact name: Schools and Pupils Statistics Team
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