School Children and Homeschooled Children - Freedom of information requests

Title or Description
School Children and Homeschooled Children
FOI Number
15230
Date Received
19/05/2021
Type of Request
FOI
Request or Question
Can you tell me for each of the academic years 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, in September of that period:i. How many school aged children (5-16) were registered as living in your areaii. How many children (5-16) were registered at schools in your areaiii. How many home schooled children (5-16) your area had registerediiii How many children who registered as educated in some other manner (such as educated part time at school, and part time at home) in your area.Please provide the information in an editable excel spreadsheet or a table in an editable word document.
Response
1. 2020-21 – 14482, 2019-20 – 14558, 2018-19 – 14591.

2. This information is freely available to all on the Scottish government website for all school and areas.

3. 2018-19 – 2 newly registered on top of existing registered children (total 53)
2019-20 – 24 newly registered on top of existing registered pupils (total 69)
         2020-21 – 28 newly registered on top of existing registered pupils (total      85)

4. Flexi-schooled  2018-19 = 5      2019-20 = 35     2020-21 = 33