Department For Education
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We produce official statistics on:
- early years
- schools
- further education
- higher education
- children and young people
This is carried out in line with the code of practice for official statistics andDfE official statistics: standards and policies.
Upcoming publications
Upcoming official statistics publications are announced on the statistics release calendar.
Upcoming ad hoc statistics and data releases
These are not part of our regular official statistics publications and are published on explore education statistics (EES) or GOV.UK.
| Publication date | Time | Release type | Release title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 December 2024 | 9:30am | other | DfE external data shares |
| 06 March 2025 | 9:30am | other | DfE external data shares |
| 05 June 2025 | 9:30am | other | DfE external data shares |
| 11 September 2025 | 9:30am | other | DfE external data shares |
| 04 December 2025 | 9:30am | other | DfE external data shares |
Explore education statistics (EES)
Use the explore education statistics (EES) service to:
- find official statistics
- download and explore data
- find ad hoc statistics
- find transparency data
All other ad hoc statistics and other transparency data can be found in theDfEtransparency data sectionof GOV.UK.
Historic publications published before March 2020 can be found on GOV.UK. Statistics before May 2010 can be found in theUK government web archive.
Find and compare the performance of schools and colleges in England
Use the compare school and college performance service to:
- review school and college performance data in your local area
- view test and exam results
- view Ofsted ratings
- view a range of other information
Benchmark your schools financial data
Use the schools financial benchmarking service to:
- compare your income and expenditure to similar schools and academy trusts
- visualise the information using benchmarking charts
- access data to build relationships with other schools and academy trusts
Related statistics
Statistics for higher education are also published by:
- the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS)
- the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA)
- Office for Students (OfS)
Statistics related to qualifications are published by Ofqual and the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ).
Ofsted publish statistics related to their inspections and outcomes.
Education is devolved in the UK and each countrys government publishes statistics on its separate system. These are available at:
- education statistics for Wales
- education statistics for Northern Ireland
- education statistics for Scotland
Contact us
If you have a specific query, contact details are available at the bottom of each statistical publication.
To provide general feedback regarding statistics, you can contacthop.statistics@education.gov.uk. If you have a media enquiry, you can contact the press Office on 020 7783 8300. If you have a general enquiry about education or DfE, contact 0370 000 2288.
DfE statistics news and announcements
13 November 2023: get involved in our Explore education statistics user research
The Department for Education has been publishing official statistics on the Explore education statistics service since 2020. We are committed to improving the service for the wide range of users who want and need easy access to our statistics.
Feedback from users is essential to this, so we are running a refresh user engagement project to revisit our user groups and core research. This will gather insights on user experiences, and any challenges they currently face when making use of our published statistics.
To get involved, users can fill in our survey. We expect this to take approximately 10 minutes to complete. The survey also includes an option to register for a follow up interview with a user researcher.
If you have any questions or concerns, email explore.statistics@education.gov.uk.
Delphine Robineau, Head of Profession for Statistics
5 May 2023: corrections to the childcare and early years providers survey 2022
An error has been identified which affects results from the childcare and early years providers survey: 2022. Revised figures were published on 5 May 2023.
The error came about because a small number of childcare providers (approximately 0.9% of the providers that responded to the survey) were incorrectly counted in the statistics. They should not have been included, because they do not provide childcare to children aged 0 to 4.
The error has been thoroughly investigated. As a result of the error, previously published estimates of the total number of childcare providers in England were approximately 600 (or 1.0%) higher than they should have been. Estimates of the total number