Statistics at Ofsted

We publish statistics on early years and childcare, schools, initial teacher training, children and families services and further education and skills inspections and outcomes.

We also publish statistics about providers and places in early years and children’s social care.

We’ve grouped many of our statistics into collections, including:

Search our statistics

Our statistics can be searched by keyword and date of publication on the main GOV.UK statistics page.

Forthcoming publications

The release calendar gives the planned publication dates of Ofsted’s statistical releases for the coming year. Publication is usually at 9:30am.

Data dashboard

The data dashboard offers a snapshot of the performance in a school, college or further education and skills provider. It includes data by key stage on performance indicators such as attainment, progress and attendance and some cross-indexing by gender and socio-economic status.

Data View

Data View shows Ofsted inspection data in simple graphs that make the data quickly and easily accessible. You can compare and contrast performance in inspections between regions, local authority areas and parliamentary constituencies for:

early years providers
schools
further education and skills providers
children’s centres
initial teacher education providers
children’s social care providers
local authority inspections

Standards for official statistics

Ofsted’s official statistics follow the standards defined in the UK Statistics Authority Code of Practice for Official Statistics. The documents below set out how Ofsted follows the code of practice: