Official Statistics
School capacity in England: academic year 2020 to 2021
Statistics on state-funded school places in England, as collected in the 2021 school capacity survey.
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This release includes information as reported by local authorities as of 1 May 2021 on:
- primary and secondary state-funded school places
- sixth form capacity
- unfilled school places and pupils in places that exceed their school’s capacity
It also provides:
- local authorities’ pupil forecasts up to 2025 to 2026 at primary level and 2027 to 2028 at secondary level
- local authorities’ planned changes to school places up to 2023 to 2024
- the departments modelled estimates of the future number of school places needed to meet predicted demand