Guidance

School census autumn 2020 to summer 2021: school summary report

Specifications for software suppliers developing school summary reports for the school censuses in autumn 2020, spring 2021 and summer 2021.

Applies to England

Documents

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 2 July 2020
Last updated 16 March 2021 + show all updates
  1. Updated the 'summary report technical specification: summer'.

  2. Updated summary report technical specification for spring.

  3. Updated summary report technical specification for autumn.

  4. First published.