Autumn School Census 2025 – Bulletin
This FAQ lists the latest information regarding the School Census.
For Schools wanting the latest documentation for Census and using Bromcom – Click here to jump to the relevant section.
For Schools wanting the latest documentation for Census and using Arbor – Click here to jump to the relevant section.
For Schools wanting the latest documentation for the Post-16 Census – Click here to jump to the relevant section.
For information preparation for the upcoming Census click: How can I prepare data and be ready for the School Census Return?
Census Date: Thursday 2nd October 2025
DfE return date: Wednesday 29th October 2025
| KNOWN ISSUES: | Please check back on regular basis – Known issues will be posted here |
| Bromcom: 22/09/2025 | Census files have been applied.
Errors and Queries 1859 and 3032 updated to include DOB range test. Summary Report We have noted an issue in the report where a school had post-16 provision in 2024/25 and no longer offers this, and HighestNCyear has reverted to 11. Table 28 of the summary does not populate with data from the XML, although the file does contain the expected historic data. DfE have not advised whether they intend to resolve this issue with the summary file.
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| Brocmom: 16/09/2025 | Please note that the Autumn 2025 Census file has not yet been applied. As a result, incorrect validation errors may be produced when generating the census file. Advice is to not run the census yet until these have been applied (next update 22.09.2025 awaiting confirmation of the application of these files) |
Documentation – Bromcom
All Information released by Bromcom can be found on the Bromcom Census page – School Census – Bromcom
- Thursday 2nd October is census day
- Wednesday 29th October 2025 is your census submission deadline (unless otherwise advised by your Local Authority)
SCOMIS – Census ‘Quick Summary Guide for Bromcom’ – ‘Pre-checks’ and ‘Generating School Census’ – CLICK HERE
Guides and Webinars
Please find a link to Bromcom’s Census Page & Errors Guide below:
Census guide and Webinar Autumn 2025 School Census Guide
Post 16 Guide and Webinar Autumn 2025 Post 16 Guide
Errors guide Autumn 2025 Error Resolutions Guide
Documentation – Arbor
- Thursday 2nd October is census day
- Spring Census Dry Run opens 2 weeks before Census Day
- Wednesday 29th October 2025 is your census submission deadline (unless otherwise advised by your Local Authority)
SCOMIS – Census ‘Quick Summary Guide for Arbor’ – ‘Pre-checks’ and ‘Generating School Census’ – CLICK HERE
Please find a link to Arbor’s Census Pages and Errors Guide below:
Overview census page here and a link to Arbor guide, errors and FAQ’s here.
Census guide – School Census guides – Arbor
Errors guide – School Error guides – Arbor
Documentation – Post 16
Here is all the guidance for Schools completing the Post 16 Census: Autumn Post 16 School Census 2025 Guide