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Guidance: General hospital schools census: guide

Department For Education

October 21
09:00 2024

This guide helps you prepare and submit your schools annual census return.

Census day for registered general hospital schools is Thursday 16 January 2025.

The census collects the following information from general hospital schools:

  • their contact details
  • how many pupils there are on the attendance register
  • the number of teaching staff and non teaching staff
  • how many pupils have special educational needs (SEN)
  • how many pupils are eligible for free school meals (FSM)

Read more guidance about submitting data for the general hospital schools census.

Updates to this page

Published 23 January 2019
Last updated 21 October 2024 +show all updates
  1. Updated the general hospital schools census guide for 2025.

  2. Updated the general hospital schools census guide for 2024.

  3. Published the guidance for the 2023 census.

  4. Added School level annual school census (SLASC) general hospital schools 2022.

  5. Updated the guidance for the 2021 census.

  6. Updated guidance document and census date for the 2020 census.

  7. First published.

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