Location of Educational Establishments in England, 2003 and 2005

Grid-referenced location data for primary and middle deemed primary Local Education Authority maintained schools in England. The dataset was sourced from the Department for Education and Skills and published by Neighbourhood Statistics. It covers the years 2003 and 2005.

Use Cases

• Analyze school accessibility and catchment areas based on grid-referenced location data.
• Map the geographic distribution of primary and middle schools in England.
• Study changes in school locations between the two available years, 2003 and 2005.
• Integrate school location data with other demographic or service datasets for spatial analysis.

Strengths

• Data is grid-referenced, providing precise geographic coordinates for analysis.
• Covers two distinct years (2003 and 2005), allowing for potential temporal comparison.
• Focuses on a specific, defined subset of schools (primary and middle deemed primary LEA maintained).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect temporal bias, as the latest year covered is 2005.

Provenance

Source

Department for Education and Skills (DfES), ONS Access to Services Team

Collection Method

Administrative data

Time Range

2003, 2005

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:52.561731; freshness should be verified as the underlying data is from 2005.

Geography

England