The number of schools closed by local authority during the calendar years 2000 to 2006 are as follow:
Local authority Stock as at 2006 2000 % of stock 2000 2001 % of stock 2001 2002 % of stock 2002 2003 % of stock 2003 Barking and Dagenham 58 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Barnet 112 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 Barnsley 96 0 0 6 6 0 0 0 0 Bath and North East Somerset 77 0 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 Bedfordshire 210 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 Bexley 76 0 0 3 4 1 1 6 8 Birmingham 403 10 2 3 1 4 1 16 4 Blackburn with Darwen 75 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 Blackpool 38 0 0 2 5 1 3 0 0 Bolton 119 0 0 0 0 6 5 5 4 Bournemouth 37 1 3 0 0 0 0 2 5 Bracknell Forest 36 0 0 0 0 2 6 0 0 Bradford 195 73 37 0 0 0 0 0 0 Brent 79 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 Brighton and Hove 87 0 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 Bristol City of 149 8 5 0 0 3 2 1 1 Bromley 95 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 2 Buckinghamshire 221 3 1 5 2 7 3 1 0 Bury 78 1 1 0 0 1 1 8 10 Calderdale 100 1 1 0 0 2 2 0 0 Cambridgeshire 240 2 1 2 1 4 2 4 2 Camden 51 2 4 0 0 1 2 0 0 Cheshire 326 5 2 0 0 0 0 6 2 City of London 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Cornwall 272 0 0 2 1 3 1 2 1 Coventry 105 0 0 1 1 6 6 2 2 Croydon 120 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 2 Cumbria 329 2 1 4 1 9 3 2 1 Darlington 39 6 15 0 0 0 0 4 10 Derby 100 3 3 1 1 0 0 1 1 Derbyshire 413 0 0 2 0 4 1 2 0 Devon 357 2 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 Doncaster 120 0 0 4 3 5 4 8 7 Dorset 171 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 Dudley 105 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 Durham 291 0 0 0 0 7 2 2 1 Ealing 81 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 East Riding of Yorkshire 155 0 0 0 0 3 2 1 1 East Sussex 183 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Enfield 84 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 Essex 556 13 2 11 2 5 1 7 1 Gateshead 87 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 Gloucestershire 292 6 2 4 1 0 0 0 0 Greenwich 82 2 2 5 6 2 2 0 0 Hackney 66 1 2 1 2 2 3 3 5 Halton 64 0 0 8 13 0 0 0 0 Hammersmith and Fulham 48 0 0 0 0 2 4 2 4 Hampshire 507 1 0 6 1 0 0 0 0 Haringey 77 8 10 0 0 3 4 0 0 Harrow 66 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Hartlepool 37 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 Havering 83 2 2 0 0 1 1 1 1 Herefordshire 97 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 Hertfordshire 505 4 1 12 2 3 1 5 1 Hillingdon 83 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 Hounslow 74 0 0 9 12 0 0 0 0 Isle of Wight 67 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Isles of Scilly 1 0 0 0 0 5 500 0 0 Islington 57 0 0 1 2 1 2 0 0 Kensington and Chelsea 34 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Kent 576 1 0 2 0 3 1 5 1 Kingston upon Hull City of 95 0 0 4 4 2 2 1 1 Kingston upon Thames 48 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Kirklees 186 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Knowsley 70 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 Lambeth 75 2 3 5 7 3 4 2 3 Lancashire 600 2 0 6 1 12 2 0 0 Leeds 265 0 0 1 0 5 2 0 0 Leicester 101 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 Leicestershire 281 1 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 Lewisham 85 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 Lincolnshire 354 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 Liverpool 172 3 2 11 6 14 8 12 7 Luton 75 2 3 3 4 0 0 4 5 Manchester 161 7 4 6 4 2 1 4 2 Medway 105 0 0 1 1 2 2 2 2 Merton 51 0 0 0 0 14 27 0 0 Middlesbrough 51 0 0 0 0 6 12 8 16 Milton Keynes 105 4 4 2 2 0 0 1 1 Newcastle upon Tyne 93 0 0 4 4 4 4 0 0 Newham 89 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 Norfolk 440 4 1 3 1 0 0 2 0 North East Lincolnshire 74 2 3 2 3 0 0 2 3 North Lincolnshire 81 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 North Somerset 75 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 North Tyneside 72 3 4 4 6 4 6 0 0 North Yorkshire 378 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Northamptonshire 318 2 1 3 1 4 1 2 1 Northumberland 198 2 1 0 0 0 0 4 2 Nottingham 114 1 1 2 2 3 3 3 3 Nottinghamshire 346 4 1 37 11 6 2 7 2 Oldham 109 0 0 3 3 6 6 3 3 Oxfordshire 279 1 0 3 1 3 1 14 5 Peterborough 73 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Plymouth 95 2 2 0 0 3 3 0 0 Poole 38 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Portsmouth 64 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Reading 49 1 2 2 4 1 2 0 0 Redbridge 68 1 1 10 15 0 0 0 0 Redcar and Cleveland 58 2 3 3 5 0 0 4 7 Richmond upon Thames 50 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Rochdale 91 0 0 6 7 0 0 0 0 Rotherham 123 0 0 2 2 0 0 2 2 Rutland 20 0 0 1 5 0 0 0 0 Salford 98 13 13 4 4 0 0 0 0 Sandwell 115 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 0 Sefton 106 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 Sheffield 171 3 2 0 0 8 5 5 3 Shropshire 165 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 Slough 43 2 5 2 5 0 0 0 0 Solihull 81 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 Somerset 262 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 South Gloucestershire 112 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 South Tyneside 67 3 4 0 0 2 3 7 10 Southampton 78 6 8 0 0 0 0 4 5 Southend-on-Sea 49 0 0 2 4 0 0 4 8 Southwark 91 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 St. Helens 68 2 3 0 0 2 3 0 0 Staffordshire 380 2 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 Stockport 115 2 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 Stockton-on-Tees 75 0 0 2 3 3 4 0 0 Stoke-on-Trent 95 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 Suffolk 333 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 Sunderland 111 0 0 5 5 7 6 1 1 Surrey 375 1 0 7 2 3 1 3 1 Sutton 57 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 4 Swindon 77 10 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 Tameside 94 0 0 0 0 4 4 3 3 Telford and Wrekin 77 0 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 Thurrock 53 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 Torbay 40 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Tower Hamlets 90 0 0 2 2 4 4 2 2 Trafford 91 0 0 2 2 4 4 0 0 Wakefield 145 1 1 5 3 2 1 4 3 Walsall 118 4 3 0 0 0 0 3 3 Waltham Forest 79 0 0 0 0 2 3 7 9 Wandsworth 70 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 Warrington 84 1 1 2 2 7 8 0 0 Warwickshire 241 2 1 5 2 0 0 1 0 West Berkshire 78 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 West Sussex 286 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 Westminster 52 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Wigan 130 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 Wiltshire 240 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 1 Windsor and Maidenhead 63 1 2 0 0 1 2 0 0 Wirral 125 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 Wokingham 62 0 0 0 0 2 3 1 2 Wolverhampton 105 6 6 1 1 5 5 0 0 Worcestershire 249 2 1 12 5 0 0 1 0 York 66 5 8 3 5 5 8 0 0 Total Stock/Change 21,360 290 1 302 1 274 1 254 1
Local authority 2004 % of stock 2004 2005 % of stock 2005 2006 % of stock 2006 Total % of stock total Barking and Dagenham 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Barnet 5 4 3 3 0 0 9 8 Barnsley 0 0 7 7 0 0 13 14 Bath and North East Somerset 0 0 6 8 0 0 8 10 Bedfordshire 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 Bexley 3 4 0 0 0 0 13 17 Birmingham 16 4 6 1 0 0 55 14 Blackburn with Darwen 2 3 2 3 0 0 5 7 Blackpool 0 0 4 11 0 0 7 18 Bolton 2 2 0 0 0 0 13 11 Bournemouth 1 3 0 0 0 0 4 11 Bracknell Forest 2 6 2 6 0 0 6 17 Bradford 0 0 3 2 0 0 76 39 Brent 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 Brighton and Hove 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 4 Bristol City of 1 1 2 1 0 0 15 10 Bromley 1 1 0 0 0 0 4 4 Buckinghamshire 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 7 Bury 2 3 0 0 0 0 12 15 Calderdale 3 3 0 0 0 0 6 6 Cambridgeshire 2 1 0 0 0 0 14 6 Camden 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 Cheshire 5 2 7 2 0 0 23 7 City of London 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Cornwall 1 0 4 1 0 0 12 4 Coventry 1 1 2 2 0 0 12 11 Croydon 2 2 2 2 0 0 8 7 Cumbria 4 1 6 2 0 0 27 8 Darlington 5 13 4 10 0 0 19 49 Derby 4 4 0 0 0 0 9 9 Derbyshire 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 2 Devon 2 1 8 2 0 0 14 4 Doncaster 1 1 1 1 0 0 19 16 Dorset 3 2 4 2 0 0 9 5 Dudley 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 Durham 2 1 0 0 0 0 11 4 Ealing 1 1 1 1 0 0 4 5 East Riding of Yorkshire 1 1 2 1 0 0 7 5 East Sussex 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Enfield 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 Essex 3 1 1 0 0 0 40 7 Gateshead 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 Gloucestershire 0 0 4 1 0 0 14 5 Greenwich 2 2 2 2 0 0 13 16 Hackney 0 0 3 5 0 0 10 15 Halton 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 13 Hammersmith and Fulham 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 8 Hampshire 4 1 2 0 0 0 13 3 Haringey 5 6 0 0 0 0 16 21 Harrow 0 0 2 3 0 0 2 3 Hartlepool 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 Havering 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 5 Herefordshire 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 2 Hertfordshire 3 1 14 3 0 0 41 8 Hillingdon 1 1 3 4 0 0 5 6 Hounslow 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 12 Isle of Wight 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 Isles of Scilly 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 500 Islington 3 5 0 0 0 0 5 9 Kensington and Chelsea 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Kent 2 0 7 1 2 0 22 4 Kingston upon Hull City of 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 Kingston upon Thames 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Kirklees 0 0 2 1 0 0 2 1 Knowsley 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 Lambeth 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 16 Lancashire 6 1 5 1 0 0 31 5 Leeds 22 8 9 3 0 0 37 14 Leicester 3 3 2 2 0 0 7 7 Leicestershire 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 Lewisham 0 0 2 2 0 0 4 5 Lincolnshire 2 1 2 1 0 0 6 2 Liverpool 8 5 1 1 0 0 49 28 Luton 2 3 0 0 0 0 11 15 Manchester 1 1 1 1 0 0 21 13 Medway 0 0 4 4 0 0 9 9 Merton 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 27 Middlesbrough 0 0 1 2 0 0 15 29 Milton Keynes 3 3 0 0 0 0 10 10 Newcastle upon Tyne 1 1 3 3 0 0 12 13 Newham 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 Norfolk 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 2 North East Lincolnshire 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 8 North Lincolnshire 2 2 0 0 0 0 4 5 North Somerset 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 North Tyneside 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 15 North Yorkshire 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 Northamptonshire 18 6 9 3 0 0 38 12 Northumberland 2 1 5 3 2 1 15 8 Nottingham 2 2 9 8 0 0 20 18 Nottinghamshire 5 1 6 2 1 0 66 19 Oldham 2 2 0 0 0 0 14 13 Oxfordshire 0 0 1 0 0 0 22 8 Peterborough 3 4 0 0 0 0 3 4 Plymouth 0 0 4 4 0 0 9 9 Poole 2 5 0 0 0 0 2 5 Portsmouth 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Reading 1 2 0 0 0 0 5 10 Redbridge 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 16 Redcar and Cleveland 2 3 4 7 0 0 15 26 Richmond upon Thames 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Rochdale 2 2 2 2 0 0 10 11 Rotherham 1 1 2 2 0 0 7 6 Rutland 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 Salford 1 1 5 5 0 0 23 23 Sandwell 0 0 4 3 0 0 11 10 Sefton 2 2 13 12 0 0 18 17 Sheffield 0 0 0 0 2 1 18 11 Shropshire 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 Slough 3 7 0 0 0 0 7 16 Solihull 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 Somerset 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 1 South Gloucestershire 3 3 0 0 0 0 5 4 South Tyneside 2 3 0 0 0 0 14 21 Southampton 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 13 Southend-on-Sea 2 4 4 8 0 0 12 24 Southwark 0 0 2 2 0 0 4 4 St. Helens 4 6 0 0 0 0 8 12 Staffordshire 6 2 7 2 0 0 18 5 Stockport 3 3 9 8 0 0 16 14 Stockton-on-Tees 2 3 2 3 2 3 11 15 Stoke-on-Trent 7 7 3 3 0 0 28 29 Suffolk 3 1 2 1 0 0 8 2 Sunderland 6 5 0 0 0 0 19 17 Surrey 7 2 2 1 0 0 23 6 Sutton 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 Swindon 2 3 0 0 0 0 12 16 Tameside 0 0 1 1 0 0 8 9 Telford and Wrekin 4 5 6 8 0 0 12 16 Thurrock 2 4 4 8 0 0 9 17 Torbay 0 0 2 5 0 0 2 5 Tower Hamlets 0 0 1 1 0 0 9 10 Trafford 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 7 Wakefield 1 1 2 1 0 0 15 10 Walsall 0 0 6 5 0 0 13 11 Waltham Forest 2 3 0 0 0 0 11 14 Wandsworth 2 3 0 0 0 0 4 6 Warrington 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 12 Warwickshire 2 1 2 1 0 0 12 5 West Berkshire 0 0 4 5 0 0 4 5 West Sussex 14 5 0 0 0 0 17 6 Westminster 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Wigan 4 3 2 2 0 0 7 5 Wiltshire 4 2 9 4 2 1 20 8 Windsor and Maidenhead 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 Wirral 0 0 2 2 0 0 3 2 Wokingham 0 0 1 2 0 0 4 6 Wolverhampton 3 3 0 0 0 0 15 14 Worcestershire 2 1 2 1 0 0 19 8 York 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 20 Total Stock/Change 279 1 287 1 13 0 1,699 8 Note: Isles of Scilly amalgamated their five schools into one school (the Five Islands school) hence the 500 per cent. change in school stock in this authority. Source: DfES.
The aforementioned figures include schools that closed as a result of the amalgamation or merger of two or more schools; schools that have closed but reopened as voluntary schools with a religious character; and schools that have closed in local authorities that have moved from a three-tier to a two-tier system.