Additional Support Need data by local authority: FOI release
- Published
- 2 December 2025
- Directorate
- Learning Directorate
- Topic
- Education, Public sector
- FOI reference
- FOI/202500484033
- Date received
- 9 September 2025
- Date responded
- 12 September 2025
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Information requested
The number of pupils, as per the most recent pupil census, with at least one Additional Support Need (ASN), broken down by local authority.
Response
Please find information requested in the table below:
ASN pupils – pupil census 2024
|
Local Authority |
Pupils with ASN |
Percentage of all pupils |
|
Aberdeen City |
10,987 |
41.8 |
|
Aberdeenshire |
17,191 |
47.6 |
|
Angus |
4,992 |
34.1 |
|
Argyll and Bute |
3,796 |
38.8 |
|
City of Edinburgh |
24,831 |
45.9 |
|
Clackmannanshire |
2,501 |
38.6 |
|
Dumfries and Galloway |
8,187 |
45.5 |
|
Dundee City |
7,689 |
41.3 |
|
East Ayrshire |
4,957 |
30.9 |
|
East Dunbartonshire |
4,684 |
26.8 |
|
East Lothian |
5,710 |
37.8 |
|
East Renfrewshire |
5,097 |
28.7 |
|
Falkirk |
8,154 |
38.3 |
|
Fife |
18,421 |
37.8 |
|
Glasgow City |
37,224 |
51.7 |
|
Highland |
12,820 |
42.8 |
|
Inverclyde |
4,000 |
41.3 |
|
Midlothian |
6,016 |
42.1 |
|
Moray |
4,917 |
40.6 |
|
Na h-Eileanan Siar |
1,175 |
37.4 |
|
North Ayrshire |
6,706 |
39.4 |
|
North Lanarkshire |
17,128 |
35.4 |
|
Orkney Islands |
1,246 |
45.6 |
|
Perth and Kinross |
6,959 |
39.1 |
|
Renfrewshire |
8,606 |
35.5 |
|
Scottish Borders |
5,896 |
42.1 |
|
Shetland Islands |
1,366 |
42.7 |
|
South Ayrshire |
5,888 |
42.1 |
|
South Lanarkshire |
16,045 |
34.9 |
|
Stirling |
4,783 |
37.9 |
|
West Dunbartonshire |
5,434 |
45.7 |
|
West Lothian |
10,742 |
38.6 |
|
Grant aided |
300 |
26.0 |
|
Scotland |
284,448 |
40.5 |
Breakdown of these statistics by school sector is available in tables 6.10, 7.5 and 8.6 of the Pupil census supplementary statistics.
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