Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils are in state education per year group in England.

The most recently published statistics on the number of pupils at schools in England are from the January 2024 school census and can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics.

The table at the following link gives the number of state-funded school pupils by national curriculum year group as of that census: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/c9d612cd-f178-4ca0-a02a-08dcedcd278c.