This release contains the latest statistics on school and pupil numbers and their characteristics, including:

• age
• gender
• free school meals (FSM) eligibility
• English as an additional language
• ethnicity
• information on school characteristics
• information on class sizes

This publication analyses the characteristics of pupils by their:

• special educational needs provision
• type of need

It’s based on data collected through the:

• school census
• general hospital school census
• school-level annual school census (SLASC) for independent schools

The statistics show the number of applications to each local authority. They also show the number and proportion of offers based on whether a preferred offer was made and the level of that preference.

The underlying data includes:

• the numbers and proportions by preference level and whether the offer was within or outside the home local authority
• a time series for previous years

In 2018, we revised the regional and local authority (LA) level data on this page. To allow users to make multi-year and geographical comparisons more easily, we have now published a multi-year and multi-level file.

It includes estimates to account for schools who did not provide information in a given year for the staff headcount and full-time equivalent (FTE) numbers, so that year on year figures are comparable. Further work has also been done since the initial publication to improve the quality of the data upon which some of the other indicators were based.

Visit ‘School workforce in England: November 2018’ and select ‘Revised subnational school workforce census data 2010 to 2018’. You can also view the updated 2018 methodology note.

On 30 April 2013 total school workforce headcount figures for the school workforce in England for November 2012 were released. These are available on this page together with comparable figures for earlier years. This release was updated on 17 July 2013 to include a file of underlying data, updated additional tables on teacher flows and retirements and additional data for pupil to teacher ratios (table 17).

The publication includes information on teacher and other school workforce staff, broken down by contract type and characteristics including gender, age and ethnicity. It also includes information on teachers’ pay and allowances, teachers’ qualifications, the curriculum taught by teachers, teacher vacancies and teacher sickness absence.

Information underlying these national figures at the local authority area, regional and school level was published in July 2013.

Additional tables covering initial teacher training, teacher entrants, wastage and turnover, flows, teacher retirements and out-of-service teachers aged under 60 were also published with this statistical first release on the 30 April 2013.

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These documents show:

• the total number of open academies, free schools, studio schools and UTCs in England
• details of schools that are in the process of getting academy status
• progress schools are making towards converting to academy status
• sponsored academy projects in development and the agreed sponsor

We update this data monthly as more academies, free schools, studio schools and UTCs open. Older versions of this publication can be found by visiting the https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/*/https:/www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-academies-and-academy-projects-in-development" class="govuk-link">National Archives.

Details of successful free school and UTC applications are available.

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This release is based on information collected in the January 2015 school census.

It covers all types of school in England including:

• local-authority-maintained schools
• academies
• free schools
• studio schools
• university technical colleges
• independent schools

The technical note explains the statistics.

Contact details

A ‘stuck’ school is a school that has:

• had consistently poor inspection outcomes throughout the last 13 years
• been judged to be inadequate, satisfactory or to require improvement in every inspection it’s had between 1 September 2007 and 31 August 2020
• had at least 4 full inspections in the period

When the school has become an academy, or changed its unique reference number for any other reason (such as being re-brokered in to a multi-academy trust), then the outcomes of inspections of the predecessor school are also included.

A ‘stuck’ school which improved to good between 31 August 2019 and 31 August 2020 is a school that has:

• been judged to be inadequate, satisfactory or to require improvement in every inspection it’s had between 1 September 2006 and 31 August 2019
• had at least 4 full inspections in the period
• been judged to be good in an inspection between 1 September 2019 and 31 August 2020

This data set was published with Ofsted’s Annual Report 2020.

This publication provides information on the levels of overall, authorised and unauthorised absence in state-funded:

• primary schools
• secondary schools
• special schools

State-funded schools receive funding through their local authority or direct from the government.

It includes daily, weekly and year-to-date information on attendance and absence, in addition to reasons for absence. The release uses regular data automatically submitted to the Department for Education by participating schools.

The attached page includes links to attendance statistics published since September 2022.

Overview

Ofsted publishes this data to provide a more up-to-date picture of the results within https://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk/" class="govuk-link">Parent View. This management information covers submissions received in the previous 365 days for independent schools inspected by Ofsted and maintained schools and academies in England.

Within these releases, you can find:

• an overall question-by-question breakdown of the results for both school types
• a further breakdown of these results by phase and region for maintained schools and academies
• data on the number of submissions received and the response rates for the above categories
• for publications from 2018 onwards, individual school-level data for schools with 10 or more submissions

Publications from September 2021 to April 2022

Due to COVID-19, routine inspections were paused from April 2020 until September 2021. While Parent View is open for submissions all year round, parents are encouraged to fill out the Parent View survey during inspections. Please bear this in mind when interpreting releases where data was collected during this period, as there were fewer submissions received.

Publications from 2020 onwards

The questions used in the Parent View survey changed in September 2019. Due to this change, the releases in the following academic year only contain submissions from the first academic term (January 2020 release), then the first and second academic terms (April 2020 release). Please bear this in mind when comparing to previous releases. Future releases will contain a full rolling 365-day period of the new question data.

Publications from 2017 onwards

These releases now only include submissions for schools that were open and eligible for inspection by Ofsted at the point the management information was produced. Because of this change, the data from these new releases is not completely comparable with the data found within the 2014 to 2015 and 2015 to 2016 releases.

Publications from 2014 to 2015 and 2015 to 2016

This management information covers submissions received to https://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk/" class="govuk-link">Parent View, in each academic year since 2014 to 2015, for independent schools and maintained schools and academies in England.

These releases only include submissions for schools that were open and eligible for inspection by Ofsted throughout each academic year.

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This release provides transparency data from the voluntary one-off survey on school places, sent to local authorities in England, in September 2020. Included in this release are:

• school level capacity data for academic year 2019 to 2020 for a small number of state-funded primary and secondary schools in England
• planned additional places in mainstream schools that relied on ongoing building work, mainly for academic year 2021 to 2022, for those local authorities that responded

In England a free school meal is a statutory benefit available to school aged children from families who receive other qualifying benefits and who have been through the relevant registration process.

On 17 September 2013 the Department for Education announced that all infant school pupils (pupils in reception and years 1 and 2) in state funded schools in England will be eligible for a free school meal from September 2014.

This statistical release estimates the number of children in relative and absolute poverty by free school meal entitlement in the current system and looks at the impact on this of the announced extension to all infant school pupils for 2014 to 2015. In addition, this release presents analysis of the number of families currently on free school meals in relative and absolute poverty which would stand to benefit from being able to increase working hours without losing free school meals following the increase in entitlement.

The Department for Education (DfE) has awarded 300 schools a total of £37 million under the school-based nursery capital grant for 2024 to 2025.

Providers can use this grant to repurpose spare space in school buildings, to create or expand nursery provision.

The list of successful applicants shows:

• who has been awarded the grant
• who is responsible for running the nursery
• whether the applicant has an existing nursery

DfE has contacted all applicants to tell them the outcome. There is no appeals process. We will send successful applicants more instructions.

The applicant summary has data on the schools which applied.

The registrations of interest summary has data on who registered their interest in providing school-based nurseries in future.

This document sets out the details of all schools in the pre-opening stage of the free school programme, including:

• type of school
• age group served
• local authority
• geographical region

There are many different types of free school, including:

• primary
• secondary
• all-through
• for 16- to 19-year-olds
• special
• alternative provision

There are also a small number of maths schools. These are specialist free schools for the most mathematically able 16- to 19-year-olds.

Alongside free schools, there are university technical colleges (UTCs) and studio schools. These are mainly for 14- to 19-year-olds.

Section 6A of the http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/21/contents/enacted" class="govuk-link">Education Act 2011, which changed the arrangements for establishing new schools, is called the academy or free school presumption.

Details of all https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/" class="govuk-link">open free schools, UTCs and studio schools and open academies and academy projects in development are available.

This publication sets out the:

• numbers of, and full time equivalent (FTE) numbers of teachers and support staff in service
• number of entrants to, and leavers from, teaching
• teacher retention
• teacher retirements
• characteristics of teachers and support staff, including gender, age and ethnic group
• teachers’ pay
• teachers’ qualifications
• curriculum taught by secondary school teachers
• teacher vacancies
• teacher sickness absence
• pupil-to-teacher ratios

The release includes information at national, regional and local authority levels, and associated data files at school level.

The statistics show the number of applications to each local authority. They also show the number and proportion of offers based on whether a preferred offer was made and the level of that preference.

The underlying data includes:

• the numbers and proportions by preference level and whether the offer was within or outside the home local authority
• a time series for previous years

Information on the number of:

• ex-teachers who signed up to supply teacher agencies
• Teach First alumni who expressed an interest to join the temporary school workforce

The department asked ex-teachers to join the school workforce on 20 December 2021. The aim was to help cover any increased staff absence levels in the spring term due to COVID-19.

This data presents a partial snapshot. It is not a full estimate of the number of ex-teachers who came forward to join the temporary school workforce.

Details about the number of people working for the DfE group, and payroll costs for permanent staff and contractors.

The DfE group includes the:

• Department for Education
• Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Teaching Regulation Agency
• Standards and Testing Agency
• Office of the Children’s Commissioner
• Construction Industry Training Board
• Engineering Construction Industry Training Board
• Office for Students
• Student Loans Company
• Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education
• LocatED