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.
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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