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Schools: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools have closed in the last five years.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
12 Feb 2025
Answer
18 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools have closed in the last five years.

  2. 12 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 18 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    Education is a devolved matter, and the response outlines the information for England only.98 state-funded mainstream primary and secondary schools in England closed between January 2020 and December 2024. The attached table sets out these closures by cal...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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