Primary School Attendance in Leeds by LSOA, 2020

2020 data on the number of sessions attended at primary schools in Leeds, aggregated by Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA) and overall. A session is defined as half a day. The dataset was published by the Government Digital Service on the eu_open_data platform on 2020-10-20. No attendance data is available for the 2019/20 academic year due to school closures from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Use Cases

• Analyze geographic disparities in primary school attendance based on LSOA-level aggregation.
• Assess the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on school attendance patterns based on the noted data gap.
• Model local education authority performance based on session-level attendance data.
• Benchmark overall attendance rates for primary schools in a specific urban area.

Strengths

• Data is spatially disaggregated to the Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA) level, enabling fine-grained geographic analysis.
• Provides a clear temporal anchor point with a specific last update date of 2020-10-20 14:51:34.188000.
• Includes a documented and specific data gap for the 2019/20 year due to Covid-19, clarifying scope.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely collected from primary schools in Leeds.

Time Range

Covers data up to 2020, with a gap for the 2019/20 academic year.

Freshness

Last updated 2020-10-20 14:51:34.188000; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Leeds, United Kingdom.