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Department for Education · Explore Education Statistics: absence, SEN, attainment, apprenticeships, NEET, class sizes

Apprenticeship achievements

2025/26 academic year Final

146,210achievements

Apprenticeship achievements was 146,210 achievements in 2025/26 academic year, down 26.3% (52,120) from 198,330 in 2024/25 academic year.

▼ 26.3% · −52,120 against 2024/25 academic year (previous period)

  1. Department for Education count
  2. 2025/26 academic year
  3. published 4 August 2026
  4. 1d419801-a90e-f970-9335-a13623faccbe
  5. row “Age group=Total; Age youth / adult=Total; Apprenticeship level=Total; Funding type=Total; Provider type=Total”
  6. column “Achievements”
  7. cell value 146210

2017/18 academic year to 2025/26 academic year

Apprenticeship achievements: 2017/18 academic year to 2025/26 academic yearConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour0100k200k201820202022202420262017/18 academic year: 276,160 achievements · published 4 August 20262018/19 academic year: 185,150 achievements · published 4 August 20262019/20 academic year: 146,900 achievements · published 4 August 20262020/21 academic year: 156,530 achievements · published 4 August 20262021/22 academic year: 137,220 achievements · published 4 August 20262022/23 academic year: 162,320 achievements · published 4 August 20262023/24 academic year: 178,220 achievements · published 4 August 20262024/25 academic year: 198,330 achievements · published 4 August 20262025/26 academic year: 146,210 achievements · published 4 August 2026
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What this measures

The number of apprenticeships completed successfully in England in the academic year.

What this doesn’t measure

Starts in the same year: an achievement usually belongs to a start from an earlier year.

Important caveat

Apprenticeship figures come from the Individualised Learner Record returned by providers and are revised as late returns arrive. Starts count new apprenticeships in the academic year; achievements count completions, most of which relate to starts in earlier years.

Revision history

No period of this series has been revised since it was first ingested here. Revisions are recorded automatically when a later release publishes a different figure for the same period.

Source

Publisher
Department for Education
Publication
Explore Education Statistics: absence, SEN, attainment, apprenticeships, NEET, class sizes
Release
Explore Education Statistics: releases to August 2026, published 4 August 2026
Source file
dfe_education.json
File SHA-256
301a1eda429205c90247cc4efad5564351b549d7772715a628d8459e360d8b47
Retrieved
3 September 2026
Sheet
apprenticeships
Table
1d419801-a90e-f970-9335-a13623faccbe
Row
Age group=Total; Age youth / adult=Total; Apprenticeship level=Total; Funding type=Total; Provider type=Total
Column
Achievements
Cell value
146210
Geography
E92000001
Unit
achievements
API
/api/metrics/apprenticeship_achievements · /series · /vintages

Government periods

Change during each government, from the level inherited to the last complete period before it left office. Describes the period; does not attribute cause.

Labour 2024–162,3202022/23 academic year146,2102025/26 academic year↓ 9.9%
Conservative 2019–2024185,1502018/19 academic year162,3202022/23 academic year↓ 12.3%

Full comparison with chart

Release
Explore Education Statistics: releases to August 2026 · publication page
Last updated
4 August 2026
Next release expected
Not yet announced (estimated from the usual cadence)