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Education Investment Areas: selection methodology

Methodology and data used to select the local authorities that will become Education Investment Areas, and the areas that will become Priority Education Investment Areas.

From:
Department for Education
Published
1 February 2022
Last updated
11 April 2023 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

Education Investment Areas - selection methodology

PDF, 912 KB, 20 pages

Data - Education Investment Areas selection criteria

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 34.4 KB

Priority Education Investment Areas – selection methodology

PDF, 341 KB, 12 pages

Details

Details of the methodology and data used to select Education Investment Areas based on sustained low attainment at key stage 2 and key stage 4, and the subset of 24 Priority Education Investment Areas.

Updates to this page

Published 1 February 2022
Last updated 11 April 2023 + show all updates

  1. Updated 'Education Investment Areas - selection methodology' and 'Priority Education Investment Areas – selection methodology' to reflect a local authority district name change from North Yorkshire Coast to Scarborough. Updates include accessibility improvements.

  2. Added 'Priority Education Investment Areas – selection methodology'.

  3. First published.

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