Guidance

School census 2021 to 2022: technical information

Technical specification and validation rules for submitting 2021 to 2022 school census data.

Applies to England

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This is technical information about submitting data for the school census 2021 to 2022.

Use this if you’re a:

  • supplier of software for school management information systems (MIS)
  • user of school MIS software

The specification contains:

  • changes to the previous year’s census collection
  • what data schools should supply at school level and pupil level
  • how to structure the data in XML
  • how to check the data against the validation rules

You should also read the common basic data set. This defines common data items that schools use in MIS software and that we use in our data collections.

More guidance on submitting school census data is also available.

Published 10 February 2021
Last updated 18 May 2022 + show all updates
  1. Updated the '2021 to 2022 school census collections validation rules'. Changes are listed in the version history.

  2. Updated the '2021 to 2022 school census collections validation rules'. Changes are listed in the version history.

  3. Updated the '2021 to 2022 school census collections validation rules'. Changes are listed in the version history.

  4. Updated the 2021 to 2022 school census collections validation rules.

  5. Updated 'School census 2021 to 2022: business and technical information' and '2021 to 2022 school census collections validation rules'. Changes are listed in the version history of each document.

  6. Updated 'School census 2021 to 2022: business and technical information' and '2021 to 2022 school census collections validation rules'. Changes are listed in the version history of each document.

  7. Updated 'School census 2021 to 2022: business and technical information' and '2021 to 2022 school census collections validation rules'. Changes are listed in the version history of each document.

  8. Updated the 2021 to 2022 school census collections validation rules. Changes are listed in the change log.

  9. Updated the '2021 to 2022 school census collections validation rules'.

  10. Updated the 'School census 2021 to 2022: business and technical information'. Changes are listed in the version history.

  11. Added '2021 to 2022 school census collections validation rules v1.0'.

  12. Updated the 'School census 2021 to 2022: business and technical information'. Changes are listed in the version history.

  13. Updated the 'School census 2021 to 2022: business and technical information'. Changes are listed in the version history.

  14. Updated the 'School census 2021 to 2022: business and technical information'. Changes are listed in the version history.

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