Official Statistics

School capacity in England: academic year 2021 to 2022

Statistics on state-funded school places in England, as collected in the 2022 school capacity survey.

Applies to England

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School capacity 2021 to 2022

Details

This release includes information as reported by local authorities as of 1 May 2022 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 2026 to 2027 at primary level and 2028 to 2029 at secondary level
  • local authorities’ planned changes to school places up to 2024 to 2025
  • the modelled estimates of the future number of school places needed to meet predicted demand

School Capacity

Simone Cardin-Stewart
Pupil Place Planning team

Updates to this page

Published 23 March 2023

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