Guidance

School census autumn 2019 to summer 2020: school summary report

Specifications for software suppliers developing school summary reports for the school censuses in autumn 2019, spring 2020 and summer 2020.

Applies to England

Documents

Summary report technical specification: autumn

Summary report technical specification: spring

Summary report technical specification: summer

Details

These documents are for suppliers developing software for school management information systems (MIS).

They explain what information software suppliers should include in school summary reports for the school census. Schools can then use the reports to check the accuracy of their termly school census data before sending it to their local authority or to us.

More guidance on submitting data for the school census is available.

Published 3 May 2019
Last updated 20 December 2019 + show all updates
  1. Updated summary report technical specification for spring and summer. Changes are described in each document's version history.

  2. Updated summary report technical specification for spring and summer.

  3. Updated summary report technical specification for autumn, spring and summer.

  4. Replaced attachments with updated versions.

  5. First published.