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 students received funding under the Music and Dance Scheme at each of the (a) eight schools and (b) 20 centres for advanced training in academic year (i) 2023-24 (ii) 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 |