Schools: Closures
(asked on 12th March 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many independent schools closed in 2024 compared with 2025.
Answered by
Olivia Bailey
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)
This question was answered on 18th March 2026
There were 129 private school closures between 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2025. In 2024, there were 58 closures and in 2025 there were 71 closures.
The government does not collect pupil-level data from private schools.