Official Statistics

School capacity in England: academic year 2022 to 2023

Statistics on state-funded school places in England, as collected in the 2023 school capacity survey.

Applies to England

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School capacity 2022 to 2023

Details

This release includes information as reported by local authorities as of 1 May 2023 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 2027 to 2028 at primary level and 2029 to 2030 at secondary level
  • local authorities’ planned changes to school places up to 2025 to 2026
  • the departments modelled estimates of the future number of school places needed to meet predicted demand
  • specialist provision capacity

School Capacity

Simone Cardin-Stewart
Pupil Place Planning team

Updates to this page

Published 21 March 2024

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