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Additional Support Need data by local authority: FOI release

Published
2025-12-02
Received
2025-09-09
Responded
2025-09-12
Directorate
Learning Directorate
Topic
Education, Public sector
Exemptions
None detected

Information requested

The number of pupils, as per the most recent pupil census, with at least one Additional Support Need (ASN), broken down by local authority.

Response

Please find information requested in the table below:

ASN pupils – pupil census 2024

Local Authority Pupils with ASN Percentage of all pupils Aberdeen City 10,987 41.8 Aberdeenshire 17,191 47.6 Angus 4,992 34.1 Argyll and Bute 3,796 38.8 City of Edinburgh 24,831 45.9 Clackmannanshire 2,501 38.6 Dumfries and Galloway 8,187 45.5 Dundee City 7,689 41.3 East Ayrshire 4,957 30.9 East Dunbartonshire 4,684 26.8 East Lothian 5,710 37.8 East Renfrewshire 5,097 28.7 Falkirk 8,154 38.3 Fife 18,421 37.8 Glasgow City 37,224 51.7 Highland 12,820 42.8 Inverclyde 4,000 41.3 Midlothian 6,016 42.1 Moray 4,917 40.6 Na h-Eileanan Siar 1,175 37.4 North Ayrshire 6,706 39.4 North Lanarkshire 17,128 35.4 Orkney Islands 1,246 45.6 Perth and Kinross 6,959 39.1 Renfrewshire 8,606 35.5 Scottish Borders 5,896 42.1 Shetland Islands 1,366 42.7 South Ayrshire 5,888 42.1 South Lanarkshire 16,045 34.9 Stirling 4,783 37.9 West Dunbartonshire 5,434 45.7 West Lothian 10,742 38.6 Grant aided 300 26.0 Scotland 284,448 40.5

Breakdown of these statistics by school sector is available in tables 6.10, 7.5 and 8.6 of the Pupil census supplementary statistics.

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