Guidance

Schedule of accommodation tools for schools and colleges

Tools and templates to help identify the internal spaces needed in mainstream schools and colleges.

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This guidance is used by DfE to identify the likely type and number of spaces in school and college projects. It can also be used to help with other education building projects.

The guidance is also for:

  • school and college providers
  • local authorities
  • dioceses
  • building professionals

The ‘Primary school schedule of accommodation tool’ and ‘Secondary school schedule of accommodation tool’ are not accessible because they include tables with complex structures and hard to read text contrast. This means they do not meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines success criteria 1.3.2 meaningful sequence and 1.4.3 contrast. Our teams are working to fix it by December 2024.

Updates to this page

Published 5 March 2015
Last updated 18 December 2023 + show all updates
  1. Updated the 'Primary school schedule of accommodation tool' and 'Secondary school schedule of accommodation tool'.

  2. 'FE college: Schedule of Accommodation template' replaced with an updated version.

  3. Updated the 'Notes on the Schedule of Accommodation tools and templates' and the School of Accommodation tools and templates with accessible versions.

  4. Added a schedule of accommodation tool for FE colleges.

  5. Summary and body copy updated. Excel attachments replaced with updated versions. HTML attachment updated with new text.

  6. First published.

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