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Schools, pupils and their characteristics: January 2012

Information collected in the January 2012 school census, including the number of schools and pupils.

Documents

Main text: SFR10/2012

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National tables: SFR10/2012

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Local authority tables: SFR10/2012

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Additional tables 1: SFR10/2012

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Additional tables 2: SFR10/2012

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Additional tables 3: SFR10/2012

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Underlying data: SFR10/2012

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Pre-release access data: SFR10/2012

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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

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