FOI release
Number of secondary schools and their size in student numbers
Response to a number of secondary schools and their pupil headcount for a number of ranges.
Documents
Details
- Date requested: 26 April 2013
- Date responded: 20 May 2013
Request
- How many secondary schools are there in the UK in 2013?
- How many of these secondary schools have
- less than 500 students
- between 500 and 1000 students
- between 1000 and 1500 students
- more than 1500 students
Release
The number of pupils and schools in England is published as part of the annual Statistical First Release 鈥楽chools, pupils and their characteristics鈥�. The latest data available is for January 2012.
On January 2012 there were 3,268 state-funded mainstream secondary schools in England, of which:
- 317 had between 1 and 500 pupils
- 1,405 had between 501 and 1,000 pupils
- 1,226 had between 1,001 and 1,500 pupils
- 320 had 1,501 or more pupils
Education is a devolved matter in the United Kingdom.
School census information is available from the devolved administrations in , and .
Updates to this page
Published 9 January 2014