Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the school roll was of pupils at state schools in (a) West Sussex and (b) England; and what the school roll was in (a) reception and (b) sixth form for those schools in each of the last 10 years.

Information on schools and pupils is published at the annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical release, available to view here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2017.

The school roll of pupils at state schools in England and the school roll by year group can be found in Table 1d in the National tables: SFR28/2017.

The school roll in (a) reception and (b) sixth form for individual schools can be found in the Underlying data: SFR28/2017 of the annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical release, contained in file ‘SFR28_2017_Schools_NCYear_UD’. The figures can be filtered by local authority name (column H).

Information for earlier years (from 2010 onwards) can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers.