Surplus School Places for Maintained and Academy Schools in York Local Authority

Surplus places data for Maintained and Academy schools under the York Local Authority in the United Kingdom. The dataset is sourced from the January School Census and excludes dual registered subsidiary pupils. It is published by the Government Digital Service under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in school capacity utilization based on surplus place counts.
• Support local authority planning for school openings or closures based on surplus data.
• Benchmark school occupancy rates across different school governance types (Maintained vs. Academy).

Strengths

• Data is sourced from an official administrative source, the January School Census.
• The license (OGL-UK-3.0) permits open use and redistribution.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Collected via the statutory January School Census.

Time Range

Annual snapshots from the January census.

Freshness

Annual (based on January Census), but specific last update is unknown.

Geography

York Local Authority, United Kingdom.