Accredited official statistics
Schools, pupils and their characteristics: January 2012
Information collected in the January 2012 school census, including the number of schools and pupils.
Documents
Details
Reference id: SFR10/2012
Publication type: statistical first release
Publication data: local authority data
Region: England
Release date: 21 June 2012
Coverage status: final
Publication status: published
This release includes information on:
- the number of schools and pupils
- tables showing the number of pupils by:
- age
- gender
- free school meal eligibility
- ethnicity
- first language
It also includes a range of class size information.
School types included in this publication are:
- state-funded
- primary
- secondary
- special schools
- independent schools
- pupil referral units
- alternative provision
The main points from this release are:
- in January 2012 there were around 8.2 million pupils (headcount) in all schools in England
- in maintained nursery, state-funded primary, secondary and special schools overall, the proportion of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals increased
- in both state-funded primary and secondary schools the proportion of pupils classified as being of minority ethnic origin increased
- in both state-funded primary and secondary schools the proportion of pupils whose first language was believed to be other than English increased
- the average size of key stage 1 and key stage 2 classes taught by 1 teacher increased
- the average size of classes taught by 1 teacher in state-funded primary and secondary schools increased slightly
Contact details
School census statistics team
Email Schools.Statistics@education.gov.uk
Ann Claytor 0370 000 2288
Updates to this page
Published 21 June 2012