The underlying data provides breakdowns at school level. It supports published statistics between 2002 and 2009. Statistics published before 2010 are available on the UK Government Web Archive. Note: the search function is not available on archived content so please use the filters on the left of each page.

The annual school census data return is mandatory for schools to complete.

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).

United Kingdom UK: Secondary Education: Pupils: % Female data was reported at 49.596 % in 2015. This records a decrease from the previous number of 49.805 % for 2014. United Kingdom UK: Secondary Education: Pupils: % Female data is updated yearly, averaging 49.195 % from Dec 1971 (Median) to 2015, with 45 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 49.921 % in 2013 and a record low of 48.422 % in 1971. United Kingdom UK: Secondary Education: Pupils: % Female data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s UK – Table UK.World Bank: Education Statistics. Female pupils as a percentage of total pupils at secondary level includes enrollments in public and private schools.; ; 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).

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

The Great Britain Historical Database has been assembled as part of the ongoing Great Britain Historical GIS Project. The project aims to trace the emergence of the north-south divide in Britain and to provide a synoptic view of the human geography of Britain at sub-county scales. Further information about the project is available on A Vision of Britain webpages, where users can browse the database's documentation system online.

Although these data come from the reports of the 1851 Census, they result not from the main household enumeration but from a separate survey of school attendance conducted on 31st March 1851. While modern census education statistics, from 1951 onwards, are concerned mainly with educational attainment, measured by either level of qualification achieved or age at termination of education, the 1851 data are concerned mainly with how schools were funded, and in particular the role of different religious denominations, which were very finely categorised. The only data concerning pupils are the numbers of female and male pupils on the attendance register of each category of school, except that for Scotland there are separate counts of the actual numbers of females and males in attendance on the census day.

The data gives the name, address, postcode, co-ordinates and enrolment data for schools in Northern Ireland. Further information regarding schools can be found on DE's website http://apps.education-ni.gov.uk/appinstitutes/default.aspx and ETI inspection reports on their website https://www.etini.gov.uk/

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

These data show the percentage of pupils at state funded schools who live more than 2 miles from school (for those aged under 8) or 3 miles from school (for those aged over 8), 2018.

Warning: These data are taken from analysis used to create the GLA London Schools Atlas which is based on data from the DfE National Pupil Database. These rates are taken from the variable 'SC_Pupil.DistCurrSch - Distance in miles from pupil postcode to current school'. This is not exactly the same as the nearest walking distance used for eligibility for local authority funding for free travel to school.

Further information about the NPD data can be found here: https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/london-schools-atlas

https://find-npd-data.education.gov.uk/en/datasets/8f8bb519-0d73-4150-997b-f10227d5df31

United Kingdom UK: Gender Parity Index (GPI): Primary School Enrollment: Gross data was reported at 0.999 Ratio in 2015. This records an increase from the previous number of 0.998 Ratio for 2014. United Kingdom UK: Gender Parity Index (GPI): Primary School Enrollment: Gross data is updated yearly, averaging 1.001 Ratio from Dec 1971 (Median) to 2015, with 40 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1.007 Ratio in 1991 and a record low of 0.995 Ratio in 2010. United Kingdom UK: Gender Parity Index (GPI): Primary School Enrollment: Gross data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s UK – Table UK.World Bank: Education Statistics. Gender parity index for gross enrollment ratio in primary education is the ratio of girls to boys enrolled at primary level in public and private schools.; ; 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).

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

Table shows numbers of all Schools and Pupils by Type of School.

School types included in this publication are State-Funded Primary, Secondary and Special schools, Independent schools, Pupil Referral Units, and Alternative Provision.

See DfE website

Full daily dataset of all schools and pupil numbers are available from the DFE EduBase site

Cartogram created from this data:

School enrollment, secondary (% gross) in United Kingdom was reported at 113 % in 2022, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. United Kingdom - School enrollment, secondary (% gross) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on March of 2025.

Further information about the study may be found on the COVID Social Mobility and Opportunities Study (COSMO) webpage.

Further information about the study may be found on the COSMO website.

United Kingdom UK: Gender Parity Index (GPI): Primary and Secondary School Enrollment: Gross data was reported at 1.018 Ratio in 2015. This records a decrease from the previous number of 1.022 Ratio for 2014. United Kingdom UK: Gender Parity Index (GPI): Primary and Secondary School Enrollment: Gross data is updated yearly, averaging 1.014 Ratio from Dec 1971 (Median) to 2015, with 40 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1.025 Ratio in 2013 and a record low of 0.999 Ratio in 1972. United Kingdom UK: Gender Parity Index (GPI): Primary and Secondary School Enrollment: Gross data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s UK – Table UK.World Bank: Education Statistics. Gender parity index for gross enrollment ratio in primary and secondary education is the ratio of girls to boys enrolled at primary and secondary levels in public and private schools.; ; 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).

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Next Steps (also known as the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (LSYPE1)) is a major longitudinal cohort study following a nationally representative group of around 16,000 who were in Year 9 attending state and independent schools in England in 2004, a cohort born in 1989-90.

The first seven sweeps of the study were conducted annually (2004-2010) when the study was funded and managed by the Department for Education (DfE). The study mainly focused on the educational and early labour market experiences of young people.

In 2015 Next Steps was restarted, under the management of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) at the UCL Faculty of Education and Society (IOE) and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. The Next Steps Age 25 survey was aimed at increasing the understanding of the lives of young adults growing up today and the transitions out of education and into early adult life.

The Next Steps Age 32 Survey took place between April 2022 and September 2023 and is the ninth sweep of the study. The Age 32 Survey aimed to provide data for research and policy on the lives of this generation of adults in their early 30s. This sweep also collected information on many wider aspects of cohort members' lives including health and wellbeing, politics and social participation, identity and attitudes as well as capturing personality, resilience, working memory and financial literacy.

Next Steps survey data is also linked to the National Pupil Database (NPD), the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), the Individualised Learner Records (ILR) and the Student Loans Company (SLC).

There are now two separate studies that began under the LSYPE programme. The second study, Our Future (LSYPE2) (available at the UK Data Service under GN 2000110), began in 2013 and will track a sample of over 13,000 young people annually from ages 13/14 through to age 20.

Further information about Next Steps may be found on the CLS website.

Secure Access datasets:

Secure Access versions of Next Steps have more restrictive access conditions than Safeguarded versions available under the standard End User Licence (see 'Access' section).

Secure Access versions of the Next Steps include:

• sensitive variables from the questionnaire data for Sweeps 1-9. These are available under Secure Access SN 8656.
  
• National Pupil Database (NPD) linked data at Key Stages 2, 3, 4 and 5, England. These are available under SN 7104.
• Linked Individualised Learner Records learner and learning aims datasets for academic years 2005 to 2014, England. These are available under SN 8577.
  
• detailed geographic indicators for Sweep 1 and Sweep 8 (2001 Census Boundaries) - available under SN 8189 and geographic indicators for Sweep 8 (2011 Census Boundaries) - available under SN 8190. The Sweep 1 geography file was previously held under SN 7104.
• Linked Health Administrative Datasets (Hospital Episode Statistics) for years 1998-2017 held under SN 8681.
• Linked Student Loans Company Records for years 2007-2021 held under SN 8848.

When researchers are approved/accredited to access a Secure Access version of Next Steps, the Safeguarded (EUL) version of the study - Next Steps: Sweeps 1-9, 2004-2023 (SN 5545) - will be automatically provided alongside.

The Student Loans Company (SLC) is a non-profit making government-owned organisation that administers loans and grants to students in colleges and universities in the UK. The Next Steps: Linked Administrative Datasets (Student Loans Company Records), 2007 - 2021: Secure Access includes data on higher education loans for those Next Steps participant who provided consent to SLC linkage in the age 25 sweep. The matched SLC data contains information about participant's applications for student finance, payment transactions posted to participant's accounts, repayment details and overseas assessment details.

The study includes four datasets:

Applicant: SLC data on cohort member’s application for student finance between academic years 2007 and 2020

Payments: SLC data on payment transactions made to cohort member between financial years 2007 and 2021.

Repayments: SLC data on cohort member’s repayment transactions between financial years 2009 and 2021.

Overseas: SLC data on overseas assessment for cohort member between 2007 and 2020

This publication combines information from the school census (state-funded schools), school level annual school census (independent schools) and general hospital school census on pupils with special educational needs (SEN).Data at school level including number of pupils by SEN provision and type of need.