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. 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. 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 10.63 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

The Department for Educations list of all open schools in England. This dataset is updated monthly.This point dataset is reflective of the December 2014 update showing the open schools for this month. The points were created using OS Open Data.

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This group of six surveys assesses children's attainments in a sample of English and Welsh primary and secondary schools. The children in each age group were given a battery of tests and the results related to detailed information on the schools attended and to background, biographical and personal information on each child. In the case of Welsh children, linguistic information was also included. Main Topics: This survey covers children aged 14 years or over in English secondary schools. Information consists of test scores on a variety of tests (specific test content is confidential and not deposited with the Data Archive, but summary descriptions follow): Mathematics: an 85 item test (divided into 2 sections, the first consisting of 22 mathematical problems to be answered within 30 minute time limit, and the second consisting of 63 items covering mensuration - 20 minutes allowed). Mathematical Insight: 77 items designed to measure understanding of basic mathematical concepts (4 sections each separately timed - overall time limit 45 minutes). Mechanical Arithmetic: this is the same test as used for the 10+ group (see SN:60007 for description). English: 80 item test, covering vocabulary, comprehension, grammar usage and written expression (2 sections, first of 20 minutes duration and second of 30 minutes). English reading: description as for 10+ group (see SN:60007). Background information on child includes: sex; date of birth; school class; parental encouragement assessed on a three-point scale; rating of parental occupation (i.e. professional - managerial - unskilled etc.); subjects taken at school; number of these to be taken at GCE. Also included are mathematics and English attitude scales. Information on school includes: type, size, denomination of school, character of school locality, age of school buildings, amenities provided, sex of mathematics teacher and of English teacher and percentage of pupils leaving school at fifteen. One-stage stratified or systematic random sample schools as the sampling unit. The schools were those on the Ministry of Education list of maintained and assisted schools in England effective in January 1959. For each school chosen, all children fourteen years of age or older were assessed. The strata were defined by type and sex of school; within each stratum the schools were selected by the use of the relevant sampling interval for that stratum Educational measurements

This dataset shows the location of Higher Education (HE) and Further Education (FE) institutes in the Great Britain. This should cover Universities and Colleges. Many institutes have more than one campus and where possible this is refelcted in the data so a University may have more than one entry. Postcodes have also been included for instities where possible. This data was collected from various sources connected with HEFE in the UK including JISC and EDINA. This represents the fullest list that the author could compile from various sources. If you spot a missing institution, please contact the author and they will add it to the dataset. GIS vector data. This dataset was first accessioned in the EDINA ShareGeo Open repository on 2011-02-01 and migrated to Edinburgh DataShare on 2017-02-21.

This dataset contains details of all currently open Nursery, Primary, Secondary and Special Schools in York

For more information on schools and contact details in York, including recent changes see schools' contact details at CYC's webpage

In 2024, Glasgow had higher construction costs for primary and secondary education buildings than the other cities in the United Kingdom included in this list. The construction costs for this type of building were also quite high in London, at 3,375 British pounds. On the other side of the spectrum, Birmingham was the city in the ranking with the lowest construction costs for this type of building.

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The University of Cambridge was listed as the best university in the United Kingdom in 2025 with an overall score of 1000, compared with the University of Oxford, which came in second-place with a score of 965.

Key Stage 2 (KS2) data for year 6 primary school pupils who met or exceeded the Expected Standard (EXS+) by School Ward for the period 2016 onwards. The data is by school location, rather than by pupil residence. In determining, which ward the data relates to, a Schools list by wards is available. The data source is the National Consortium of Examination Results (NCER) but the figures come from the Department of Education (DfE).

A summary of Calderdale school performance can be found on the Council website: School performance tables. School performance for individual schools can be found at Compare school performance.

Please note some DFE numbers might have changed please see previous DFE code on Schools list.

The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has been leading the management of the Tuition Partners (TP) pillar of the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) in 2020/2021, funded as part of the government coronavirus catch-up package. The TP programme allows schools to access subsidised tuition from a list of 33 tuition partners, quality approved by the EEF, to support pupils who have missed out the most as a result of school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The focus is on supporting disadvantaged pupils, in particular those eligible for Pupil Premium, but with flexibility for schools to select those pupils who they feel were most in need of the support. The EEF commissioned the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) to run a reach and engagement nimble randomised controlled trial (RCT) with EM Tuition, an approved NTP Tuition Partner. The RCT explored the impact of two distinctive types of recruitment emails on school sign-up to the TP programme provided by EM Tuition: one email included a testimonial from a headteacher on the benefits of tutoring, the other included a summary of the research evidence of the benefits of tutoring. EM Tuition sent recruitment emails during February and March 2021 to 1,949 primary, secondary, and special schools in areas of England where they offer tutoring provision, including Hertfordshire, Essex, North London, the East of England, and Suffolk. Schools were randomly allocated to receive one of the two types of email messages. A team from NFER analysed the impact of the different recruitment emails on the proportion of schools signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) or providing an Expression of Interest (EoI) for their pupils to receive tutoring from EM Tuition as part of the TP programme.

The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has been leading the management of the Tuition Partners (TP) pillar of the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) in 2020/2021, funded as part of the government coronavirus catch-up package. The TP programme allows schools to access subsidised tuition from a list of 33 tuition partners, quality approved by the EEF, to support pupils who have missed out the most as a result of school closures due to the COVID 19 pandemic. The focus is on supporting disadvantaged pupils, in particular those eligible for Pupil Premium, but with flexibility for schools to select those pupils who they feel were most in need of the support. The EEF commissioned the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) to run a reach and engagement nimble randomised controlled trial (RCT) with EM Tuition, an approved NTP Tuition Partner. The RCT explored the impact of two distinctive types of recruitment emails on school sign-up to the TP programme provided by EM Tuition: one email included a testimonial from a headteacher on the benefits of tutoring, the other included a summary of the research evidence of the benefits of tutoring. EM Tuition sent recruitment emails during February and March 2021 to 1,949 primary, secondary, and special schools in areas of England where they offer tutoring provision, including Hertfordshire, Essex, North London, the East of England, and Suffolk. Schools were randomly allocated to receive one of the two types of email messages. A team from NFER analysed the impact of the different recruitment emails on the proportion of schools signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) or providing an Expression of Interest (EoI) for their pupils to receive tutoring from EM Tuition as part of the TP programme.

Attainment data for children at various stages in early years and primary education:

• Early years foundation stage profile (EYFSP);
• Year 1 Phonics;
• Key Stage 1 (KS1);
• Key Stage 2 (KS2).

The data is by school location, rather than by pupil residence, in determining which ward the data relates to. A list of schools by wards is also provided.

The data source is the National Consortium of Examination Results (NCER).

A summary of Calderdale school performance can be found on the Council website: School performance tables .

School performance for individual schools can be found at Compare school performance .

In 2022/23, the Open University, which focuses on remote learning, had approximately 140,215 students enrolled on courses, the highest in the UK during that academic year. After the Open University, University College London had the highest number of students in the UK, at 51,810, while the University of Manchester had the second-highest, at 46,860. The UK's oldest university, The University of Oxford, had approximately 27,340 students studying there.

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This machine-readable version of John Williams' Digest of Welsh Historical Statistics is the result of a collaboration between the Statistical Directorate of the National Assembly for Wales, the History Data Service and the Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis at Queen's University Belfast.
John Williams' Digest of Welsh Historical Statistics is intended to provide a service for those working on the history of modern Wales. It arises from a belief that the quantitative element is a necessary and important part of the historical record; from an awareness that it was an aspect that was particularly inaccessible for scholars of Welsh history; and from a conviction that some encouragement in the use of quantitative material was necessary. It is modelled on the two volumes dedicated to British historical statistics: Mitchell, B.R. and Deane, P. (1962) Abstract of British historical statistics and Mitchell, B.R. and Jones, H.G. (1971) Second abstract of British historical statistics.
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The main tables are:


Schools. Number of schools, 1818-1867; Monmouthshire, 1600-1870; and work schools, 1700-1890
Schools. Church of England elementary schools under government inspection, 1850-1862; British schools, total and inspected, Wales and South Wales, 1843-1871
Schools. Type of school, 1877-1976
Schools, by responsible body, 1879-1971
Pupils. Number of pupils in day and Sunday schools, 1818-1867
Pupils. Number on register, by type of school, 1877-1976
Pupils. Number of pupils in maintained schools, by sex, 1898-1976
School leavers by age of leaving a) from public and elementary schools, 1920-1938; b) from secondary schools on the grant list, 1909-1938; and c) school leavers, by sex and reason, 1947-1974
Teachers. Number of full-time teachers, by type of school, 1851-1973
Teachers. Full-time teachers, by qualification, 1851-1973
Teachers. Teachers in training, 1865-1974
Finance. Total net expenditure on elementary education, 1951-1975
Examinations. Number of candidates and passes, Central Welsh Board 1900-1950; and Welsh Joint Education Committee 1951-1974
University. Number of full-time degree and diploma students, by college and sex, 1893-1972
University. Origin of full-time degree students of the University of Wales, 1921-1975
University. Staff of the University of Wales, by grade, 1908-1974
University. Finance. Total current income and expenditure by institution, University of Wales, 1893-1974

Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.