School Estate Statistics 2023

Statistics from the 2023 school estates core facts survey

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Section 1: Schools built or substantially refurbished

During the 2022-23 year 46 school builds or substantial refurbishment projects were completed. This brings the total number of school builds or substantial refurbishment projects completed since 2007-08 to 1,098. Only builds or refurbishments costing at least half a million pounds for primary and at least one million pounds for secondary and special schools are reported here.

Figure 1: In 2022-23 46 schools were built or refurbished: 38 primary, six secondary and two special schools.

Schools built or substantially refurbished by school sector from 2016-17 to 2022-23.

School Type

2016-17

2017-18

2018-19

2019-20

2020-21

2021-22

2022-23

Primary

82

71

73

23

32

48

38

Secondary

11

17

7

6

7

4

6

Special

    7

8

1

1

2

1

2

Total

100

96

81

30

41

53

46

Note 1: Secondary and Total figures for 2021-22 were revised in 2023. One school had been recorded as built/substantially refurbished in 2021-22 when the work was not completed until mid-April 2022 so is now included in the 2022-23 figures.

 

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