Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of pupils at every mainstream state (a) primary and (b) secondary school (i) were from each ethnic group and (ii) had an unclassified ethnic group in each academic year since 2006-7; and what the URN was of each school.

Tables containing the data requested has been emailed to my hon. Friend, the Member for Harborough, via his parliamentary office. This is due to the file size of the attachments.

The tables contain numbers and percentages indicating the ethnicity of pupils at primary and secondary state-funded mainstream schools in England from 2006/07 to 2022/23. The data is based on the January school census in each academic year.

Note that school unique reference numbers (URNs) may change over time; for example, where a school becomes an academy. Information on links between schools’ current and prior legal identities is available via the Get Information About Schools (GIAS) website at: https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/.

Until January 2018 the department only collected data on ethnicity for pupils of compulsory school age and above. Figures from January 2018 include pupils of all ages.

Notes on the tables:

• Ethnicity of pupils at state-funded primary and secondary schools in England 2006/07 to 2022/23.
• Source: linked January school census data from the pupil data repository.
• Figures may not match published figures exactly. A small number of pupil records are removed for reasons of strict confidentiality. School phase type may differ in the published data for a very small number of schools.