Data set from School workforce in England

Support staff characteristics

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Published 4 June 2026

Last updated 17 August 2026

Support staff FTE and headcount by type of school and characteristics including post held, sex, age group and ethnicity

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Data set details

• Theme: Teachers and school workforce
• Publication: School workforce in England
• Release: Reporting year 2025
• Number of rows: 942,625
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Full-time equivalent
  • Full-time equivalent percent within indicator
  • Headcount
  • Headcount percent within indicator
• Filters:
  • Age group
  • Ethnicity minor
  • Post
  • Sex
  • Type of school
  • Working pattern
• Time period: 2011/12 to 2025/26

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Data set preview

Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	region_code	region_name	old_la_code	new_la_code	la_name	school_type	post	sex	age_group	working_pattern	ethnicity_major	ethnicity_minor	full_time_equivalent	headcount	fte_percent_within_indicator	headcount_percent_within_indicator
202526	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						Total state-funded schools	Teaching assistants	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	295182.85	410120	100	100
202526	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						State-funded nursery and primary	Teaching assistants	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	187154.94	276887	100	100
202526	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						LA maintained nursery and primary	Teaching assistants	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	97637.99	144300	100	100
202526	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						LA maintained nursery	Teaching assistants	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	2407.83	3172	100	100
202526	Academic year	National	E92000001	England						LA maintained primary	Teaching assistants	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	95230.16	141128	100	100

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Variables in this data set

Table showing all 10 variables

Variable name	Variable description
age_group	Age group
ethnicity_minor	Ethnicity minor
fte_percent_within_indicator	Full-time equivalent percent within indicator
full_time_equivalent	Full-time equivalent
headcount	Headcount
headcount_percent_within_indicator	Headcount percent within indicator
post	Post
school_type	Type of school
sex	Sex
working_pattern	Working pattern

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If you have a specific enquiry about Support staff characteristics statistics and data:

Teachers and teaching statistics team

Email: schoolworkforce.statistics@education.gov.uk
Contact name: Tony Clarke
Telephone: 0774 7767329

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