Official Statistics

School capacity in England: academic year 2023 to 2024

Statistics on state-funded school places in England, as collected in the 2024 school capacity survey.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 27 March 2025

Applies to England

Documents

School capacity 2023 to 2024

https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-capacity/2023-24

Details

This release includes information as reported by local authorities as of 1 May 2024 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 2028 to 2029 at primary level and 2030 to 2031 at secondary level
• local authorities’ planned changes to school places up to 2026 to 2027
• the departments modelled estimates of the future number of school places needed to meet predicted demand
• specialist provision capacity
• the capacity of special educational needs unit and resourced provision in mainstream schools
• local authority forecast demand for specialist provision

School Capacity

Robert Miller
Pupil Place Planning team

Email SCAP.PPP@education.gov.uk

Published 27 March 2025