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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
This uses v1.0 from DfE. The DfE released a new set of validations this week (v1.1) which has the following corrections which we have not yet implemented. Until we do that, the following validations will not trigger correctly in the MIS, but will do so at COLLECT.

1859 and 3032 updated to include DOB range test.
2775Q and 3030Q corrected.
1925Q Leaving date range corrected

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.

 
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

 

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