School characteristics by age, sex and attendance pattern
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Number of schools and pupils in England, by type, phase, denomination, admissions policy, sex, urban or rural classification and academy status, including pupil counts by age.
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Data set details
- Theme
- Pupils and schools
- Publication
- Schools, pupils and their characteristics
- API data set ID
- 019e7401-bedb-711a-ae3d-836fbca519f3
How do I use this ID? - Release
- Academic year 2025/26
- Release type
- Number of rows
- 2,846,580
- Geographic levels
- Local authority, National, Parliamentary constituency, Regional
- Indicators
- Count of pupils aged 0
- Count of pupils aged 1
- Count of pupils aged 10
- Count of pupils aged 11
- Count of pupils aged 12
- Count of pupils aged 13
- Count of pupils aged 14
- Count of pupils aged 15
- Count of pupils aged 16
- Count of pupils aged 17
- Count of pupils aged 18
- Count of pupils aged 19
- Count of pupils aged 2
- Count of pupils aged 3
- Count of pupils aged 4
- Count of pupils aged 5
- Count of pupils aged 6
- Count of pupils aged 7
- Count of pupils aged 8
- Count of pupils aged 9
- Count of pupils of all ages
- Number of schools
- Filters
- Academy indicator
- Attendance type
- Denomination
- Pupil sex
- School admissions policy
- School type
- School type (detailed)
- Sex of school description
- Urban or rural indicator
- Time period
- 2015/16 to 2025/26
Data set preview
| time_period | time_identifier | geographic_level | country_code | country_name | region_code | region_name | new_la_code | old_la_code | la_name | pcon_code | pcon_name | sex_of_school_description | phase_type_grouping | type_of_establishment | denomination | admissions_policy | urban_rural | academy_flag | attendance_pattern | sex | school_count | total_pupil_count | aged_0_pupil_count | aged_1_pupil_count | aged_2_pupil_count | aged_3_pupil_count | aged_4_pupil_count | aged_5_pupil_count | aged_6_pupil_count | aged_7_pupil_count | aged_8_pupil_count | aged_9_pupil_count | aged_10_pupil_count | aged_11_pupil_count | aged_12_pupil_count | aged_13_pupil_count | aged_14_pupil_count | aged_15_pupil_count | aged_16_pupil_count | aged_17_pupil_count | aged_18_pupil_count | aged_19_pupil_count |
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| 202526 | Academic year | Local authority | E92000001 | England | E12000004 | East Midlands | E10000007 | 830 | Derbyshire | Mixed | Independent school | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 28 | 3252 | 8 | 19 | 40 | 97 | 114 | 76 | 110 | 131 | 173 | 154 | 202 | 239 | 255 | 276 | 358 | 343 | 318 | 294 | 37 | 8 | ||
| 202526 | Academic year | Local authority | E92000001 | England | E12000004 | East Midlands | E10000007 | 830 | Derbyshire | Mixed | Independent school | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Male | 28 | 1866 | 4 | 9 | 20 | 53 | 63 | 36 | 60 | 70 | 96 | 87 | 106 | 156 | 152 | 147 | 216 | 201 | 198 | 171 | 17 | 4 | ||
| 202526 | Academic year | Local authority | E92000001 | England | E12000004 | East Midlands | E10000007 | 830 | Derbyshire | Mixed | Independent school | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Female | 28 | 1386 | 4 | 10 | 20 | 44 | 51 | 40 | 50 | 61 | 77 | 67 | 96 | 83 | 103 | 129 | 142 | 142 | 120 | 123 | 20 | 4 | ||
| 202526 | Academic year | Local authority | E92000001 | England | E12000004 | East Midlands | E10000007 | 830 | Derbyshire | Mixed | Independent school | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Full time | Total | 28 | 3107 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 31 | 110 | 71 | 106 | 127 | 170 | 151 | 201 | 238 | 254 | 275 | 356 | 343 | 318 | 294 | 37 | 8 | ||
| 202526 | Academic year | Local authority | E92000001 | England | E12000004 | East Midlands | E10000007 | 830 | Derbyshire | Mixed | Independent school | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Part time | Total | 28 | 145 | 8 | 17 | 25 | 66 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| academy_flag | Academy indicator - Academy or otherwise |
| admissions_policy | School admissions policy - Selective or otherwise |
| aged_0_pupil_count | Count of pupils aged 0 |
| aged_1_pupil_count | Count of pupils aged 1 |
| aged_10_pupil_count | Count of pupils aged 10 |
| aged_11_pupil_count | Count of pupils aged 11 |
| aged_12_pupil_count | Count of pupils aged 12 |
| aged_13_pupil_count | Count of pupils aged 13 |
| aged_14_pupil_count | Count of pupils aged 14 |
| aged_15_pupil_count | Count of pupils aged 15 |
| aged_16_pupil_count | Count of pupils aged 16 |
| aged_17_pupil_count | Count of pupils aged 17 |
| aged_18_pupil_count | Count of pupils aged 18 |
| aged_19_pupil_count | Count of pupils aged 19 |
| aged_2_pupil_count | Count of pupils aged 2 |
| aged_3_pupil_count | Count of pupils aged 3 |
| aged_4_pupil_count | Count of pupils aged 4 |
| aged_5_pupil_count | Count of pupils aged 5 |
| aged_6_pupil_count | Count of pupils aged 6 |
| aged_7_pupil_count | Count of pupils aged 7 |
| aged_8_pupil_count | Count of pupils aged 8 |
| aged_9_pupil_count | Count of pupils aged 9 |
| attendance_pattern | Attendance type - Pupil attendance full time or part time |
| denomination | Denomination - Religious denomination |
| phase_type_grouping | School type - Filter by school type |
| school_count | Number of schools |
| sex | Pupil sex - Sex of pupils |
| sex_of_school_description | Sex of school description - Mixed, boys, girls |
| total_pupil_count | Count of pupils of all ages |
| type_of_establishment | School type (detailed) - Filter by school type (further detail) |
| urban_rural | Urban or rural indicator - Urban or rural indicator |
Footnotes
- Totals include state-funded nursery, primary, secondary, alternative provision (AP) schools and special schools, and non-maintained special schools. Does not include independent schools nor general hospital schools. This is because independent and hospital schools submit an aggregate school level census that does not include characteristics breakdowns such as ethnicity, age and language.
- Prior to 2023/24 schools were required to record pupils' gender, which was coded as male /female and reported in the publication as boys/girls. From 2023/24 the variable has been clarified to reflect the pupil's legal sex and is both recorded and reported as male/female. The figures are reported here as constituting a single time series.
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- School characteristics by age ,sex and attendance pattern
- API data set ID
- 019e7401-bedb-711a-ae3d-836fbca519f3
- API data set version
- 1.0
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