Official statistics announcement

School capacity: academic year 2019 to 2020

Statistics on school places, unfilled school places, pupils over capacity, pupil number forecasts and place planning in England.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 28 February 2020
• Last updated: 27 January 2021 — See all updates

• Proposed release: March 2021
• Cancellation date: 23 April 2020 5:49pm

Statistics release cancelled

Following the cancellation of the ‘School capacity survey: 2020’ due to COVID-19, in line with guidance from the Office for Statistics Regulation, the decision has been made to cancel the School capacity: academic year 2019 to 2020 statistics publication. Some school capacity data covering the academic year 2019 to 2020 will be published as transparency statistics in Spring 2021.