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.

From:
Department for Education
Published
24 March 2022

Applies to England

Documents

School capacity 2020 to 2021

https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-capacity/2020-21

Details

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

School Capacity

Simone Cardin-Stewart
Pupil Place Planning team

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Published 24 March 2022

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