Guidance

School census autumn 2024 to summer 2025: school summary report

Specifications for software suppliers developing school summary reports for the school censuses in autumn 2024, spring 2025 and summer 2025.

From:
Department for Education
Published
26 June 2024
Last updated
120 AugustSeptember 2024 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

School report technical specification: autumn

PDF, 623637 KB, 66 pages

School report technical specification: spring

PDF, 503501 KB, 50 pages

School report technical specification: summer

PDF, 849409 KB, 3536 pages

Details

These documents are for suppliers developing software for school management information systems.

They explain what information software suppliers should include in school summary reports for the school census. Schools can then use the reports to check the accuracy of their termly school census data before sending it to their local authority or to us.

More guidance on submitting data for the school census is available.

Updates to this page

Published 26 June 2024
Last updated 120 AugustSeptember 2024 + show all updates

  1. Updated 'School report technical specification: spring' , 'School report technical specification: summer' and 'School report technical specification: autumn'.

  2. Updated the 'School report technical specification: spring' and 'School report technical specification: summer' reports.

  3. First published.

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