The full scale of the capital’s exodus of children has been revealed in a new study showing nearly 50,000 pupils left London’s schools last year.
Ministers have now been told to get a grip on a situation that is threatening to derail London’s successful schools, with some already announcing closure.
Analysis of school census data by Education Datalab shows 49,730 pupils left schools in the capital during the past academic year, while 38,591 joined.
That equates to a net change of -1.2 per cent across its secondaries, and -0.9 per cent within its primaries, following consecutive falls in pupil rolls since 2016.
