School Estate Statistics 2023
Statistics from the 2023 school estates core facts survey
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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