Music and Dance Scheme
(asked on 22nd October 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils were supported via the Music and Dance Scheme in academic year (a) 2023-24 and (b) 2024-25.
The Music and Dance Scheme (MDS) operates on an academic year basis. Information is available for the number of pupils supported at each provider approximately a year after the end of the academic year, in order to account for in-year starters.
The provisional data for the 2023/24 academic year is below. Provisional data on the number of students supported for the 2024/25 academic year will not be available until 2025.
Table: Number of MDS pupils for the 2023/24 academic year (provisional)
Education providers | Number of students |
Music schools | |
Chetham’s School of Music | 263 |
The Purcell School | 139 |
Wells Cathedral School | 78 |
Yehudi Menuhin School | 56 |
Dance schools | |
Elmhurst Ballet School | 108 |
The Hammond | 56 |
The Royal Ballet School | 130 |
Tring Park School for the Performing Arts | 46 |
Music Centres for Advanced Training | |
Aldeburgh Young Musicians | 18 |
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (junior department) | 45 |
Centre for Young Musicians | 75 |
Guildhall School of Music and Drama (junior department) | 35 |
Royal Academy of Music (junior department) | 31 |
Royal College of Music (junior department) | 36 |
Trinity Laban (music - junior department) | 36 |
The Glasshouse | 48 |
Sheffield Music Academy | 75 |
South West Music School | 72 |
Royal Northern College of Music (junior department) | 39 |
Yorkshire Young Musicians | 78 |
Dance Centres for Advanced Training | |
FABRIC | 61 |
Dance City | 76 |
DanceEast | 67 |
London Contemporary Dance School | 96 |
The Lowry | 43 |
Swindon Dance | 73 |
Trinity Laban (dance - junior department) | 76 |
Yorkshire Young Dancers (Northern Ballet and Northern School of Contemporary Dance) | 88 |
Total | 2,044 |