3 Headline measures by multiple child characteristics (national only)
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Data set details
- Theme
- Early years
- Publication
- Early years foundation stage profile results
- Release
- Academic year 2025/26
- Release type
- Number of rows
- 149,760
- Geographic levels
- National
- Indicators
- Number of children with a good level of development
- Percentage of children with a good level of development
- Number of children at expected level across all early learning goals
- Percentage of children at expected level across all early learning goals
- Average number of early learning goals at expected level per child
- Number of children at expected level in Communication & Language and Literacy areas of learning
- Percentage of children at expected level in Communication & Language and Literacy areas of learning
- Number of children with zero ELGs (of those contributing to GLD) at the expected level
- Percentage of children with zero ELGs (of those contributing to GLD) at the expected level
- Number of children with zero early learning goals at the expected level
- Percentage of children with zero early learning goals at the expected level
- Number of children
- Percentage of children
- Filters
- Sex
- Free school meal eligibility
- Term of birth
- First language
- SEN provision
- Ethnicity minor
- Time period
- 2021/22 to 2025/26
Data set preview
| time_period | time_identifier | geographic_level | country_code | country_name | ethnicity_major | ethnicity_minor | sen_provision | first_language | fsm_eligibility | term_of_birth | sex | children_count | children_percent | elgs_expected_average | all_elgs_expected_children_count | all_elgs_expected_children_percent | comm_lang_lit_expected_children_count | comm_lang_lit_expected_children_percent | gld_children_count | gld_children_percent | zero_elgs_gld_expected_children_count | zero_elgs_gld_expected_children_percent | zero_elgs_all_expected_children_count | zero_elgs_all_expected_children_percent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 202526 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 576725 | 100.000000 | 14.430482 | 408905 | 70.901209 | 424180 | 73.549785 | 417016 | 72.307599 | 27784 | 4.817547 | 26387 | 4.575318 |
| 202526 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Female | 281851 | 48.870952 | 15.163877 | 218683 | 77.588158 | 224848 | 79.775484 | 221574 | 78.613878 | 8499 | 3.015423 | 7962 | 2.824897 |
| 202526 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Male | 294874 | 51.129048 | 13.729478 | 190222 | 64.509587 | 199332 | 67.599042 | 195442 | 66.279835 | 19285 | 6.540082 | 18425 | 6.248432 |
| 202526 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Autumn-born | Total | 196313 | 34.039273 | 14.908483 | 151330 | 77.086082 | 155971 | 79.450164 | 153820 | 78.354465 | 9051 | 4.610494 | 8703 | 4.433227 |
| 202526 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Autumn-born | Female | 95283 | 16.521392 | 15.582643 | 79465 | 83.398927 | 81123 | 85.139007 | 80273 | 84.246928 | 2743 | 2.878793 | 2624 | 2.753902 |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| all_elgs_expected_children_count | Number of children at expected level across all early learning goals |
| all_elgs_expected_children_percent | Percentage of children at expected level across all early learning goals |
| children_count | Number of children |
| children_percent | Percentage of children |
| comm_lang_lit_expected_children_count | Number of children at expected level in Communication & Language and Literacy areas of learning |
| comm_lang_lit_expected_children_percent | Percentage of children at expected level in Communication & Language and Literacy areas of learning |
| elgs_expected_average | Average number of early learning goals at expected level per child |
| ethnicity_minor | Ethnicity minor |
| first_language | First language |
| fsm_eligibility | Free school meal eligibility |
| gld_children_count | Number of children with a good level of development |
| gld_children_percent | Percentage of children with a good level of development |
| sen_provision | SEN provision |
| sex | Sex |
| term_of_birth | Term of birth |
| zero_elgs_all_expected_children_count | Number of children with zero early learning goals at the expected level |
| zero_elgs_all_expected_children_percent | Percentage of children with zero early learning goals at the expected level |
| zero_elgs_gld_expected_children_count | Number of children with zero ELGs (of those contributing to GLD) at the expected level |
| zero_elgs_gld_expected_children_percent | Percentage of children with zero ELGs (of those contributing to GLD) at the expected level |
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