Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of children at secondary schools returned to school (a) in the UK and (b) in York since the reopening of schools after the covid-19 lockdown restrictions were eased.
The tables below present the daily national figures for nursery, reception, year 1, year 6, year 10 and year 12 pupils in attendance in England during June 2020.
Date | Children attending Nursery | Children attending reception | Children attending year 1 | Children attending year 6 | Children attending year 10[1] | Pupils attending year 12[2] |
04/06/2020 | 28,000 | 99,000 | 84,000 | 127,000 | . | . |
11/06/2020 | 40,000 | 144,000 | 130,000 | 179,000 | . | . |
18/06/2020 | 52,000 | 188,000 | 175,000 | 228,000 | 65,000 | 25,000 |
25/06/2020 | 66,000 | 238,000 | 226,000 | 279,000 | 83,000 | 34,000 |
Date | Proportion of all nursery children attending | Proportion of all reception children attending | Proportion of all year 1 children attending | Proportion of all year 6 children attending | Proportion of all year 10 children attending1 | Proportion of all year 12 pupils attending2 |
04/06/2020 | 8.9% | 15.2% | 12.7% | 18.6% | . | . |
11/06/2020 | 12.9% | 21.9% | 19.6% | 26.2% | . | . |
18/06/2020 | 16.5% | 28.8% | 26.3% | 33.5% | 10.3% | 9.5% |
25/06/2020 | 21.1% | 36.3% | 34.1% | 41.0% | 13.0% | 12.6% |
The data is collected from individual education establishments and the published figures include estimates for non-response. Equivalent estimates have not been made at lower level geographies. In addition, the Department has not produced separate overall attendance figures for the primary and secondary phases.
[1] Secondary schools, sixth form and further education colleges were asked to begin providing face-to-face support to students in year 10 and 12 from June 15th. For dates prior to this, no information was collected for these years.
[2] Figures for year 12 attendance do not include students at further education and special post-16 institutions.