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Boarding Schools: State Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children have attended state boarding schools in each of the last five years.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
4 Jun 2025
Target answer date
9 Jun 2025
Answer
13 Jun 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 4 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children have attended state boarding schools in each of the last five years.

  2. 9 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 13 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    Education is a devolved matter, and the response outlines the information for England only.The number of children who have attended state boarding schools in each of the last five academic years in England, broken down by school phase type, is available a...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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