Education and Training Statistics for the United Kingdom: 2025

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This release compiles information on education systems across the United Kingdom. Education is devolved in the UK, so each part of the United Kingdom has a separate education system.

In this release, there are sections focusing on the school system: numbers of schools, pupils and teachers, and pupil to teacher ratios (PTR), covering the 2024/25 academic year.

This is followed by sections on further and higher education, which includes the number of providers and the number of students for the 2023/24 academic year. There is also a section on young adults (aged between 16-24) who are not in education, employment or training (NEET).

The next sections focus on students' qualifications taken in the 2023/24 academic year. Given the different qualifications systems, headline measures and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is not suitable to present a direct comparative picture of pupil performance across the UK, The highest qualifications held by adults (aged 19-64) in the UK as of quarter 4 2024 are then displayed.

Finally, there is a section showing government education expenditure in the UK to the 2024-25 financial year.

For the sections covering NEET and highest qualifications for adults aged 19-64, data is used from the Office for National Statistics' (ONS) Labour Force Survey (LFS) to produce these statistics. Since 2019, ONS have faced challenges around the falling number of responses to the LFS which has led to increased sampling variability. LFS datasets are weighted in line with population estimates. In recent years there have been several reweighting exercises to address changes in international migration and impacts as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Timeseries comparisons should be viewed with some caution, and those specific sections should be considered 'Official Statistics in Development'. Comparisons of levels prior to this period should therefore be viewed with caution.