Pupil Experience Report 2025

In its recently published Pupil Experience Report 2025, Edurio says it provides the largest available, up-to-date view of pupil experience in England.  

The report is based on pupil responses collected during the 2024/25 academic year, collected across England from 231,259 pupils from 608 schools (75 academy trusts), of which 56,908 are primary; 157,468 secondary; 3,012 post-16 and 11,476 all through. The regional samples also appear more or less roughly in line with population density (East Midlands and the North East being possibly underrepresented and Yorkshire and the Humber and the South West being possibly overrepresented).   

Although the report suggests that pupils feeling safe in school is not among the responses indicating the most negative change from the previous two years, I was nevertheless shocked that only 69% of primary pupils feel “very or quite safe in school” and 63% of secondary pupils reported feeling “very or quite safe during class”. That means about 1 in three pupils does not feel safe in school/during class – can this be true?   

There is also an interesting breakdown by year group, showing that feeling safe dips down to 58% in years 8 and 9 from 67% in year 7, and jumps to 87% in year 12. The report acknowledges this “notable dip in feelings of safety” (p23) and highlights the overall level of children reporting feeling safe as a concern (p31).