Schools, pupils and their characteristics

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In Jersey there are:

• 30 primary schools
• 9 secondary schools
• 2 special schools

They provide educational services for pupils aged 3 to 18.

We also have Highlands College which offers a range of Level 3 (A-Level equivalent) vocational courses  for students aged 16 to 18 .

List of Jersey schools​

​​Primary schools

There are 30 primary schools registered in Jersey:

• 24 are Government provided schools, including:
• 22 non fee-paying
• 2 fee-paying
• 6 are private, including:
• 3 grant funded Catholic schools
• ​3 non grant funded independent schools

Private schools have their own specific admission criteria. The 2 fee-paying provided schools in Jersey are academically selective. This means they admit pupils based on certain academic selection criteria. One of these provides education for pupils aged 7 to 11 only.

Average primary class size

Secondary schools

There are 9 secondary schools in Jersey:

• 7 Government provided schools, including:
• 5 non fee-paying
• ​2 fee-paying
• 2 grant funded Catholic schools

There are 3 Government provided schools which are academically selective. Of the 5 non fee-paying provided schools, 4 provide education for pupils aged 11 to 16 and 1 for pupils aged 14 to 18. In addition to the 9 secondary schools, 1 private non grant funded primary school also offers secondary provision for school years 7 to 9.

The range in size of the four 11 to 16 provided non fee-paying schools is summarised below.

Minimum and maximum school size​

Pupils

Pupil numbers

Pupil numbers provided below include children and young people in all Years from nursery to Year 13.

These figures don’t include those who are Electively Home Educated. Details of this cohort are provided separately. 

The figures include all nursery children aged 3 to 4 years old attending a school nursery. It doesn’t include private nurseries.

Students at Highlands in Years 12 and 13 are included but it doesn’t include the full range of students at Highlands.

Pupil numbers over time

Numbers of pupils by sector​​

Pupils by Year group

Elective Home Education (Home schooled children)

Choosing to educate your child at home instead of enrolling them at a school, a college or other education setting is now referred to as Elective Home Education (EHE).

Find more information on Elective Home Education (Home schooling).

Electively home educated pupils​

Characteristics

Statistics on pupil characteristics reflect compulsory school age pupils, from Reception to Year 11,  in Government provided schools only. This is due to the availability and quality of data.

Jersey Premium

Jersey Premium is a targeted funding programme for schools and colleges on Island. It has been introduced to help all pupils get the very best from their education.

Find more information on Jersey Premium.

Percentage of Jersey Premium pupils

Number of Jersey Premium pupils by academic Year and school type

Multi-Lingual Learners

Children with English as an additional language are called multi-lingual learners (MLL).

MLL pupils are those who experience more than 1 language during early development, which may include English.

Their languages that are other than English are recorded as either their:

• home language, the language spoken by parents or caregivers in the home that the child has been consistently exposed to from birth
• first language, another language spoken that the child has been consistently exposed to from birth, either in the home or within the community

This measure is not a measure of English language proficiency or a good proxy for recent immigration. 

Language Policy for Jersey Education​

The increase in the number of pupils who are multi-lingual learners is not necessarily due to an increase in immigration. Many pupils who are multi-lingual learners are born in Jersey. More accurate recording of multi-lingual learners’ information in recent years may also explain this increase.

Percentage of multi-lingual learners​

Number of multi-lingual learners by academic Year and school type

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In the academic year 2021 to 2022, we started collecting information about multi-lingual learners’ proficiency in English for pupils in Year 1 and above.

Multi-lingual learners’ proficiency in English

Language groups of pupils​​

​Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)

There are 2 SEND classifications:

SEN Support

Extra or different help is given in addition to that provided as part of the school’s usual curriculum.

The class teacher and special educational needs co-ordinator (SENCo) may receive advice or support from outside specialists.

Record of Need (RoN)

A pupil has a RoN when a formal assessment of their special educational needs and disabilities has been made.

A document is in place setting out the child’s needs and the extra help they should receive.

Percentage of pupils with SEND

Number of pupils with SEND by academic Year and SEND category

SEND description by academic Year