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School estate statistics 2025

Statistics from the 2025 school estates core facts survey


Section 1: Schools built or substantially refurbished

During the 2024-25 year 17 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 1,156. Only builds or refurbishments costing at least £500,000 for primary and at least £1 million for secondary and special schools are reported here.

Figure 1 shows the number of new builds or refurbishment projects completed in the last five years. Figures for earlier years are available in the supplementary tables.

Figure 1: Schools built or substantially refurbished, 2020-21 to 2024-25

School Type

2020-21

2021-22

2022-23

2023-24

2024-25

Primary

32

48

38

27

15

Secondary

7

4

6

11

2

Special

2

1

2

3

0

Total

41

53

46

41

17

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