21st October 2025 by IzabelBahia
Summary Earlier this month, the London Assembly’s Economy, Culture and Skills Committee met to discuss the falling birth rates in London. The open investigation comes after the publication of several newspaper articles and research papers in the past few months highlighting the effects of falling...
13th August 2024 by Ben Corr
I am pleased (and somewhat relieved) to announce that we have now published the GLA’s 2022-based population projections. Why are the projections so late this year? This publication had originally been planned for November 2023 but was pushed back as a result of successive delays to the release of...
9th July 2024 by Veronica Tuffrey, Senior Analyst, City Intelligence Unit
The GLA demography team just released a report that examines the demographic evidence around trends in the population of young children (age 0 to 10) in London. We wrote this report to examine the truth behind media reports of primary schools in Inner London needing to merge or close due to...
18th May 2018 by Wil Tonkiss
In November 2015, GLA Demography produced the first pan-London school place demand projections. That publication provided the first consistent view of future demand for places in state-maintained schools across the capital. In the years since, the projections have proven a valuable resource in...
14th March 2018 by Andrew Collinge and Ben Corr
It’s been two years since we last wrote about the London Schools Atlas on this blog. In the intervening period, amidst a number of enhancements, we’ve given it an all-new user interface and updated with the latest data available from the DfE. As the title to this post indicates, we now have a...
26th September 2016 by Marta Lapsley
2016 has seen some big changes in our school roll projections service with the development of a new projection model which has been written in the statistical programming language R, allowing us to harness R’s power to make use of much bigger datasets and a more complex model. Every year the GLA...
4th January 2016 by Alan Lewis and Ben Corr
In 2013, the GLA launched the London Schools Atlas. This was a ground-breaking new resource for parents, planners and policy makers – providing a unique view of patterns of attendance across the capital’s schools together with a wide range of contextual information. Two years on from release, we...
24th November 2015 by Wil Tonkiss
Understanding the relationship between population change and demand for school places is crucial if public authorities are to plan effectively for future place provision. Over the last ten years London has experienced exceptionally high birth rates – annual births in the capital rose by almost...
12th June 2015 by Dan Steiner
One of the more intriguing elements of the updated Datastore design is the Schools Atlas. The Atlas’ case study notes that it “illustrates perfectly the power of accessing previously locked up data and using it in innovative ways”, and represents one of the ways in which the Datastore has...
29th May 2015 by DataPress
The London Schools Atlas is a real triumph of the city data agenda. It illustrates perfectly the power of accessing previously locked up data and using it in innovative ways to help solve real world public policy problems.For context, planning the provision of sufficient school places for London’s...