Guidance

School census 2022 to 2023: technical information

Technical specification and validation rules for submitting 2022 to 2023 school census data.

Applies to England

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Details

This is technical information about submitting data for the school census 2022 to 2023.

Use this if you’re a:

  • supplier of software for school management information systems (MIS)
  • user of school MIS software

The specification contains:

  • changes to the previous year’s census collection
  • what data schools should supply at school level and pupil level
  • how to structure the data in XML
  • how to check the data against the validation rules

You should also read the common basic data set. This defines common data items that schools use in MIS software and that we use in our data collections.

More guidance on submitting school census data is also available.

Published 17 February 2022