Reporting year 2021

School workforce in England

Annual statistics on teachers and support staff (TAs) in England. Age, gender, ethnicity, pupil teacher ratio (PTR), retention, pay, subject taught and absence.

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• Produced by: Department for Education
• Published: 9 June 2022
• Last updated: 3 April 2023

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• Entrants

  National

  Full time equivalent (FTE) qualified teacher entrants by category including school type, gender, age group and type of entrant.

  • Number of rows: 522,282
  • Indicators:
    • Entrants rate
    • FTE number of entrants
  • Filters:
    • Age group
    • Ethnicity major
    • Gender
  • Time period: 2011/12 to 2021/22

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• Leavers

  National

  Full time equivalent (FTE) qualified teacher leavers by category including school type, gender, age group and type of entrant.

  • Number of rows: 400,350
  • Indicators:
    • FTE number of leavers
    • Leavers rate
  • Filters:
    • Age group
    • Ethnicity major
    • Gender
  • Time period: 2010/11 to 2020/21

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• Pupil to teacher ratios

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Pupil: teacher ratios and pupil: adult ratios in state funded schools. Includes school level data.

  • Number of rows: 293,942
  • Indicators:
    • Number of schools
    • Pupil to adult ratio within-schools
    • Pupil to teacher ratio (Qualified and unqualified teachers) within-schools
  • Filters:
    • Type of school
  • Time period: 2010/11 to 2021/22

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• Specialist teachers in state funded secondary schools

  National

  % of hours taught by a teacher with qualification in relevant subject and the % of teachers holding qualification in relevant subject by highest qualification of teacher and subject taught.

  • Number of rows: 1,536
  • Indicators:
    • Percentage of hours taught by teacher with qualification
    • Percentage of teachers with qualification
  • Filters:
    • Highest qualification of teacher
    • Subject taught
  • Time period: 2014/15 to 2021/22

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• Subjects taught in state funded secondary schools

  National

  Headcount of teachers and the number of hours taught by subject to year groups 7-13 in all state funded secondary schools.

  • Number of rows: 462
  • Indicators:
    • Number of hours taught for all years
    • Number of hours taught for years 10 and 11
    • Number of hours taught for years 12 and 13
  • Filters:
    • Subject taught
  • Time period: 2011/12 to 2021/22

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• Support staff characteristics

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Headcount and Full time Equivalent of support staff by type of school and characteristics including post held, age group and ethnicity (additional ancillary file at school level).

  • Number of rows: 329,393
  • Indicators:
    • Full-time equivalent
    • Full-time equivalent percent within gender post
    • Headcount
  • Filters:
    • Characteristic
    • Type of school
  • Time period: 2011/12 to 2021/22

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• Teacher absences

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Teacher sickness absence in state funded schools including average number of days (all teachers) and total teachers taking absence.

  • Number of rows: 1,143
  • Indicators:
    • Average number of days taken by each teacher who took sickness absence
    • Average number of days taken in sickness absence by all teachers
    • Percentage of teachers who took sicknesss absence
  • Time period: 2014/15 to 2020/21

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• Teacher and support staff Full-time Equivalent (FTE) and headcount numbers

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Headcount and Full time Equivalent of support staff by type of school and characteristics including post held, age group and ethnicity (additional file at school level).

  • Number of rows: 31,958
  • Indicators:
    • FTE of administrative staff
    • FTE of all full-time teachers
    • FTE of all full-time teachers without qualified teacher status
  • Filters:
    • Type of school
  • Time period: 2010/11 to 2021/22

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• Teacher and support staff Full-time Equivalent (FTE) and headcount numbers - school level

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Headcount and Full time Equivalent of support staff by type of school and characteristics including post held, age group and ethnicity at school level.

  • Number of rows: 293,751
  • Indicators:
    • FTE of administrative staff
    • FTE of all full-time teachers
    • FTE of all full-time teachers without qualified teacher status
  • Filters:
    • Type of school
  • Time period: 2010/11 to 2021/22

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• Teacher characteristics

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Teacher Full Time Equivalent and headcount numbers by type of school and characteristics including age group, working pattern, grade and ethnicity (additional ancillary file at school level).

  • Number of rows: 366,569
  • Indicators:
    • Full-time equivalent
    • Full-time equivalent percent within gender grade
    • Headcount
  • Filters:
    • Characteristic
    • Type of school
  • Time period: 2010/11 to 2021/22

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• Teacher pay

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Full and part-time teachers in state funded schools by grade of teacher, salary bands, average salary, sector, gender and age. Includes school level data.

  • Number of rows: 663,608
  • Indicators:
    • Headcount of teachers
    • Headcount of teachers earning under £25K
    • Headcount of teachers earning £100-110K
  • Filters:
    • Age of teachers
    • Gender of teacher
    • Grade of teacher
  • Time period: 2010/11 to 2021/22

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• Teacher qualifications

  National, Regional

  Headcount of teachers in state funded schools by type of school, grade and highest level of post A level qualification.

  • Number of rows: 58,008
  • Indicators:
    • Headcount
  • Filters:
    • Grade of teacher
    • Highest level of qualification
    • Type of school
  • Time period: 2010/11 to 2021/22

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• Teacher retention

  National

  Full and part-time teachers by year of gaining qualified teacher status, who were in service the following year and the percentage recorded in service in state funded schools in England in each year after.

  • Number of rows: 27
  • Indicators:
    • Percentage of teachers still in service 1 year after qualifying
    • Percentage of teachers still in service 10 years after qualifying
    • Percentage of teachers still in service 11 years after qualifying
  • Filters:
    • Year teacher qualified
  • Time period: 2021 November

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• Teacher retirements

  National

  Teacher retirements from state funded schools: type of award by category including type of school, gender and year.

  • Number of rows: 9,907
  • Indicators:
    • Age ARB
    • Age retirement
    • All retirements
  • Filters:
    • Age group
    • Gender
    • Grade of last post
  • Time period: 2011-12 to 2021-22

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• Teacher vacancies

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Full- and part-time teacher vacancies, temporarily filled posts and rates in state funded schools by sector and grade. Includes school level data.

  • Number of rows: 318,014
  • Indicators:
    • Number of teacher vacancies
    • Number of temporary filled posts
    • Rate of temporary filled posts
  • Filters:
    • Type of school
    • Vacancy grade
  • Time period: 2010/11 to 2021/22

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• Vacancies secondary subjects

  National

  Full- and part-time classroom teacher vacancies and temporary filled number of posts and rates in state funded secondary schools by subject.

  • Number of rows: 186
  • Indicators:
    • Number of teacher vacancies
    • Rate of vacancies
  • Filters:
    • Vacancy subject
  • Time period: 2017/18 to 2021/22

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Supporting files

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5 supporting data files

• Support staff characteristics by school

  Support staff characteristics by school

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• Teacher characteristics by school

  Teacher characteristics by school

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• Teacher and support staff numbers by school

  School level summary of teacher and support staff characteristics, teacher pay, absences and vacancies.

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• Occasional teachers by school 2010 2021

  Teachers with a contract or service agreement for fewer than 28 days. Data from 2010 to 2021 censuses.

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• Educational psychologists by local authorities 2010 to 2021

  Educational psychologists centrally employed by local authorities for 28 days or more. Data from 2010 to 2021 census.

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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 School Workforce in England 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 methodology document 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

The Statistical Publication: ‘School Workforce in England’ provides the latest information at national and local level on the number and characteristics of teachers and other school staff that work in state funded schools in England.

The publication summarises information collected from schools and local authorities via the November 2021 School Workforce Census and links data from other sources including teachers’ pension administration data and the Database of Qualified Teachers. 

It includes information on:

• Teacher numbers, characteristics and deployment - a time series of teacher numbers in all state funded schools in England. It provides various breakdowns of these; by post held, school type and phase, gender, age, ethnicity, whether they work full/part-time, have Qualified Teacher Status or not etc.
• Teacher turnover and retention - the number of qualified entrants to teaching (and whether they are new teachers or returners), their propensity to stay, and the numbers of qualified teachers leaving the teaching profession (e.g. through retirement or leaving early).
• Teacher pay - the salaries received (in £5/10 thousand bands) for all teachers and separately for classroom teachers, leadership group teachers, and head teachers. The statistics also provide an age, gender and school type/phase breakdown. Where appropriate, average mean and median salaries are provided for comparison purposes. A summary time series of mean averages on a comparable basis is also provided.
• Statistics on support staff - the number of teaching assistants and school support staff employed by all state funded schools. This data shows the numbers by post held and has some limited characteristics data e.g. gender and ethnicity.
• Teacher qualifications and curriculum taught - information on the highest post-A-level qualification held by teachers (by teacher grade and school type/phase).

Estimates are also provided, based on a large sample of secondary schools, which show the number of teachers by subject, teaching at Key Stage 3-5 and the relevant number of hours taught.

The publication also provides estimates of the number/percentage of teachers teaching each subject that have relevant post-A level qualifications in the subject. Similar data is produced showing the number of hours taught by teachers with relevant post-A level qualifications in the subject.

• Teacher vacancies - the number of advertised teaching posts that were either vacant or temporarily filled at the census date in November (which is mid term). It provides subject level estimates for these posts for secondary schools only.
• Teacher sickness absence - the number of teachers that have taken sickness absence in the previous academic year and the number of days they were absent.
• Pupil teacher ratios - Pupil data from the January school census is used to produce pupil teacher ratios and pupil adult ratios (teachers and all classroom-based support) for each school type/phase.
• Teacher retirements and teachers out of service - the overall number of teachers who have been awarded retirement benefits from the Teachers’ Pensions Scheme after leaving teaching service in England. Also included are estimates of the numbers of teachers with qualified teacher status in England who have left service or who never entered service.

The underlying data files include national, regional, local authority and school level information for schools in England.

File formats and conventions

Where is it decided disclosure control is necessary to protect confidentiality, symbols are used in the underlying data files as follows:

x = Not available - this information has not been collected or there are no estimates available at this level of aggregation.

c = confidential - where presentation of data would disclose confidential information, for example being able to identify details about a single respondent.

u = low reliability - this indicates values for which the user should be aware of potentially low quality. 

z = not applicable - for example no data at gender level for boys at an all-girls school).

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