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<p>As of 31 August 2010, there were 4,855,336 children in good or outstanding schools.
As of 31 December 2017, there were 6,714,920 children in good or outstanding schools.
This represents an increase of 1,859,584 more children in good or outstanding schools
since December 2010. The figures are derived from published Ofsted data but there
is no breakdown available of the number of children in free schools in 2010, and therefore
there are no data available to calculate the additional number of children for all
three categories from 2010 to 2017.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2010 around 1700 schools have
left local authority control to become sponsored academies. The vast majority of these
schools were providing an unsatisfactory or inadequate education at the time of transfer.
This has left local authorities with a lower proportion of poor schools.</p><p> </p><p>The
attached table shows the breakdown of existing data for August 2010 and December 2017.</p>
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