Guidance

School census autumn 2018 to summer 2019: school summary report

Specifications for software suppliers developing school summary reports for the school censuses in autumn 2018, spring 2019 and summer 2019.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 28 June 2018
• Last updated: 29 March 2019 — See all updates

This publication was withdrawn on 2 August 2019

This document is for the 2018 to 2019 school census. For the current census, visit our guide to submitting data for the school census.

Documents

Summary report technical specification: summer

Ref: DFE-00191-2018

PDF, 614 KB, 29 pages

Summary report technical specification: spring

Ref: DFE-00193-2018

PDF, 1010 KB, 40 pages

Summary report technical specification: autumn

Ref: DFE-00192-2018

PDF, 920 KB, 53 pages

Details

These documents are for suppliers developing software for school management information systems (MIS).

They explain what information software suppliers should include in school summary reports for the school census. Schools can then use the reports to check the accuracy of their termly school census data before sending it to their local authority or to us.

More guidance on submitting data for the school census is available.

Published 28 June 2018
Last updated 29 March 2019 + show all updates

1. 29 March 2019

   Updated 'Summary report technical specification: summer'. Changes are described in the version history.

2. 15 February 2019

   Updated 'Summary report technical specification: summer'. Changes described in version history.

3. 2 January 2019

   Updated spring document. Changes described in version history.

4. 27 December 2018

   Updated spring document. Changes described in version history.

5. 30 October 2018

   Update to table 6 in 'Summary report technical specification: summer'.

6. 28 June 2018

   First published.