School Workforce in England Reporting year 2025

Product Description

Annual statistics on teachers and support staff (TAs) in England. Age, sex, ethnicity, pupil teacher ratio (PTR), retention, pay, subject taught and absence.

The School Workforce in England publication provides a comprehensive picture of the teachers and support staff working in state-funded schools in England. It draws primarily on the annual School Workforce Census, first introduced in 2010, which collects consistent and detailed information on the school workforce. The census enables the Department for Education to monitor workforce trends, support evidence-based policymaking, and ensure schools have the staff they need.

The census collects information on school staff from all state funded schools in England. This includes staff working in:

• Local Authority (LA) maintained nursery, primary, secondary, special schools and Pupil Referral Units (PRUs).
• Academy schools: free schools, University Technical Colleges, Studio Schools, City Technology Colleges, academy special schools and state-funded alternative provision schools.
• LA centrally employed teachers and support staff who spend more than half their working time in schools. Please note that it is not possible to identify which type of institution these individuals work in.

The census does not collect information from:

• Independent schools
• Non-maintained special schools
• Other further education colleges (FE).
• Some former FE funded sixth form colleges which are now classed as academy schools are excluded.

Information on teacher retention, retirements and out of service teachers does include data pre-dating the School Workforce Census (2010) due to inclusion of additional data sources which allow comparable statistics over time.