In 2023/24 there were ****** primary schools in the United Kingdom, a slight decrease when compared with the previous academic year. Since 2010/11 the overall number of primary schools in the UK has fallen by approximately *** schools.

There were approximately ***** million pupils attending schools in the United Kingdom in 2023/24, compared with **** million in the previous year and **** million in 2010/11.

In the 2023/24 academic there were 32,149 schools in the United Kingdom, 601 schools fewer than there were in the 2010/11 academic year. Throughout most of this period, there has been a steady decline in the number of schools, with a slight uptick noticeable after 2019/20, when there were just 32,028 schools. Number of UK pupils falls in 2023/24 After reaching a peak of 10.7 million in the 2022/23 academic year, the number of school pupils in the UK fell to 10.6 million in the following academic year. In the same year, the number of full-time teachers in the UK reached a high of 643,491, up from just 621,718 in the 2017/18 academic year. Although the pupil to teacher ratio at UK schools has overall been quite stable in recent years, there was a surge in the pupil to teacher ratio at nursery schools between 2012/13 and 2018/19, rising from 17.5 teachers per pupil, to 22.9. Concrete crisis at UK schools in 2023 Due to its affordability, many schools built in the UK from the 1950s to the 1990s used reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC). Although not inherently unsafe, RAAC is a less durable version of standard concrete, and has a typically shorter lifespan. The issue of RAAC in schools suddenly became more urgent in 2018, when a school roof collapsed, confirming fears that RAAC structures weakened over time. Just before schools returned for the 2023/24 academic year, 147 schools in England were confirmed as having issues with RAAC, with 19 of these forced to delay the start of the school year, and a further four opting for fully remote learning.

In London, **** percent of students at English schools had a first language that was believed to not be English in 2024/25, the most of any region in this year. By contrast, in North East England, just *** percent of school students had English as an additional language, the lowest percentage in England.

This list was given effect by the 2024 order and is effective from 18 December 2024.

The list is helpful to local authorities and governing boards when proposing a school closure.

The Department for Education uses the https://www.ons.gov.uk/methodology/geography/geographicalproducts/ruralurbanclassifications/2011ruralurbanclassification" class="govuk-link">Office for National Statistics’ 2011 rural-urban classification system for this dataset.

Total number of school places, which includes sixth form places and excludes nursery places, reported by local authorities. File also includes number of pupils on roll from the May School Census; the number of schools at or in excess of capacity and the number of pupils in places that exceed their school's capacity; the number schools with one or more unfilled places and the number of unfilled places.

This method returns the closest schools based on the specified criteria.

The dataset comprises multiple source datasets published by the Department for Education, and it is updated as soon as relevant datasets become available.

In the 2024 to 2025 school year, 83.2% of all teachers in state-funded schools in England were White British.

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

This bulletin is a one off publication that looks at how pupils are distributed between schools. It reports on the period 2006/2007 but also includes time series data from 1997.

Source agency: Education

Designation: National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: The Composition of Schools in England

United Kingdom UK: School Enrollment: Secondary: Private: % of Total Secondary data was reported at 70.828 % in 2015. This records an increase from the previous number of 69.494 % for 2014. United Kingdom UK: School Enrollment: Secondary: Private: % of Total Secondary data is updated yearly, averaging 27.445 % from Dec 1999 (Median) to 2015, with 17 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 70.828 % in 2015 and a record low of 24.869 % in 2007. United Kingdom UK: School Enrollment: Secondary: Private: % of Total Secondary data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United Kingdom – Table UK.World Bank.WDI: Education Statistics. Private enrollment refers to pupils or students enrolled in institutions that are not operated by a public authority but controlled and managed, whether for profit or not, by a private body such as a nongovernmental organization, religious body, special interest group, foundation or business enterprise.; ; UNESCO Institute for Statistics; Weighted average; Each economy is classified based on the classification of World Bank Group's fiscal year 2018 (July 1, 2017-June 30, 2018).

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

This statistic shows the number of students attending school in England in January of 2018, by type of school. There were *** million pupils attending state-funding primary schools in this month, the most of any type of school.

According to a survey conducted among headteachers at schools in England, approximately ** percent of primary schools, and ** percent of secondary schools provided, or planned to provide work for pupils via online learning platforms. Although live online lessons were the second most common way for schools to deliver education remotely, they were not as widely used in primary schools, with emailing, phoning or messaging being the second-most common type of provision.

Data presented here is an extract of data published by The Scottish Government in March 2014. The data shows School contact details as at September 2013 including school roll, FTE teacher numbers, ethnic group proportions and denomination. The data also includes the proportion of pupils who live in the 20% most deprived data-zones in Scotland. The address and contact details have been sourced from an Openings and Closings exercise that took place in June 2013. The data has been filtered to provide contact details for schools in the Glasgow local authority area only. For information on schools that have opened or closed since January 2014 please email school.stats@scotland.gsi.gov.uk The data has been geocoded and coordinates have been added in WGS84 and OSGB36 projection formats. Contains Ordnance Survey data (c) Crown Copyright 2014. Licence: None school-contact-location-details.zip - https://dataservices.open.glasgow.gov.uk/Download/Organisation/728522f0-86da-48c6-8f75-1649934eb8a4/Dataset/890346e1-d756-4fb8-b824-e48d3cc0924e/File/c8183da4-4c16-4d7b-84e8-421e1dbca76f/Version/3fb8f7d2-dc55-4cfd-9347-5362893aca9d schoolcontactdetails.geojson - https://dataservices.open.glasgow.gov.uk/Download/Organisation/728522f0-86da-48c6-8f75-1649934eb8a4/Dataset/890346e1-d756-4fb8-b824-e48d3cc0924e/File/9e165e2b-43be-4ae1-a78f-bdebab9596f0/Version/5bd4aca7-3209-4e04-bb8a-f2ac85d5c07a

In the year 2023, walking was the primary mode of travel to school for children of age five to **, accounting for ** percent of total school trips made by children. Car or van transportation followed as the second most common means of traveling to school at ** percent. Cycling to school and surface rail, on the other hand, had a very low share of * percent respectively.

Information on all schools in England including local authority maintained schools, academies, free schools, studio schools, university technical colleges and independent schools. The information includes address, school type and phone number. This information comes from EduBase, DfE’s register of schools, and will be updated every month. http://www.education.gov.uk/edubase/home.xhtml

In the United Kingdom, there were 4,181 secondary schools in the 2023/24 academic year, compared with 4,121 in 2010/11. In the provided time period, the number of secondary schools in the UK has fluctuated between a low of 4,072 schools in 2011/12 and a high of 4,204 schools in 2021/22.