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Dear Department for Education,

I would like to see a breakdown of which software is used by schools to
return the school census to the department e.g. their MIS supplier.

Please could you provide this information in an Excel spreadsheet
containing the following fields:

Local Authority Number

School Number

School Name

Establishment Type (i.e. Community School, Nursery, Voluntary Aided
School, etc.) Establishment Phase (i.e. Primary, Secondary) MIS Software
used Number of pupils on roll

Please provide this information from the most recent complete census
(Oct/17).

Thank you in advance for your help - it is much appreciated.

Yours faithfully,

Rich Harley

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Thank you for your email dated 12 November about the school census. You
wrote: “I would like to see a breakdown of which software is used by
schools to return the school census to the department e.g. their MIS
supplier.

Please could you provide this information in an Excel spreadsheet
containing the following fields:

Local Authority Number

School Number

School Name

Establishment Type (i.e. Community School, Nursery, Voluntary Aided
School, etc.) Establishment Phase (i.e. Primary, Secondary) MIS Software
used Number of pupils on roll

Please provide this information from the most recent complete census
(Oct/17). Thank you in advance for your help - it is much appreciated. ”

I have dealt with your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

An Excel spreadsheet containing the requested information requested is
enclosed. The spreadsheet contains the local authority number,
establishment number, establishment name, establishment type,
establishment phase, MIS supplier software code and number of pupils for
each school. It is not possible to provide the software supplier name as
this information is not collected. However, the software supplier code we
have included contains the software supplier name in the majority of
cases. 

I have provided data from the most recent complete census, which is the
autumn school census 2017.

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remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.

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