Official Statistics
Local authority school places scorecards 2025
A snapshot of the progress local authorities made in delivering good-quality school places in 2025.
Applies to England
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The Department for Education’s guidance on delivering schools to support housing growth recommends using cost data in the latest scorecard to help establish developer contributions per school place.
The national average data in the scorecard has been adjusted for region and inflation. More information, including guidance on adjusting the national average further for inflation, is in the technical notes in the scorecard.
The local authority scorecards include information on:
- how many places have been delivered for the academic year 2024 to 2025
- the quality of places delivered for the academic year 2024 to 2025
- how many places are planned to be delivered for the academic year 2027 to 2028
- the estimated number of additional places still needed to meet demand for the academic year 2027 to 2028
- the forecasting accuracy of local authorities
- how well parental preference is being met
- the cost of providing places
Contact
Pupil place planning team
Updates to this page
Published 25 June 2026