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Schools: Lincolnshire

Asked by Sir John HayesConservativeDepartment for EducationTabled Answered 18 September 2024UIN 4967

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many vacant state secondary school places there were in (a) Lincolnshire County Council and (b) South Holland and The Deepings constituency on 6 September 2024.

Answered by Catherine McKinnell

The department does not hold data on places vacant on 6 September 2024.

Information on unfilled state secondary school places, as at May 2023, is published in the School Capacity statistics publication here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-capacity.

For ease, local authority level information within the publication for Lincolnshire local authority can be accessed here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/62411dcf-5a26-4262-e175-08dccd7b577b.

School level information is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-catalogue/data-set/5f26c269-bf72-41ab-8292-e17b58ed7c98. This information can be aggregated to borough and parliamentary constituency level by linking to here: https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/.

In summary, for South Holland and The Deepings parliamentary constituency, there were 605 unfilled secondary school places (8%) in May 2023.

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