Official Statistics

School capacity: academic year 2016 to 2017

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

From:
Education and Skills Funding Agency and Department for Education
Published
15 March 2018

Applies to England

Documents

Commentary: SFR07/2018

PDF, 543 KB, 9 pages

Main tables: SFR07/2018:

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 100 KB

Additional tables: SFR07/2018

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 643 KB

Technical note: SFR07/2018

PDF, 480 KB, 10 pages

School capacity underlying data: SFR07/2018

ZIP, 3.12 MB

School place planning underlying data: SFR07/2018

ZIP, 10.1 MB

Pre-release access list: SFR07/2018

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Details

The annual school capacity survey 2017 provides national and local authority level information as at May 2017 on the numbers of:

  • primary school places
  • secondary school places
  • unfilled school places
  • pupils over school capacity

It also provides pupil number forecasts up to the:

  • 2021 to 2022 academic year at primary level
  • 2023 to 2024 academic year at secondary level

Additional tables on estimated places needed at the national, local authority and planning area level are also provided.

School Capacity

Selena Jackson
Pupil Place Planning team

Email SCAP.PPP@education.gov.uk

Telephone: 020 7783 8599

Published 15 March 2018

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