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National Education Insights 2026: How Does Your School or Trust Compare?
Every year, Edurio publishes national research reports built on the voices of school communities across England.
Our Staff, Pupil and Parent Experience Reports 2026 are available to download now. More than 440,000 staff, pupils and parents completed our surveys during the 2025/26 academic year, and these reports are the result.
It’s a largely positive picture this year, with pupils happier, parents feeling more respected and staff wellbeing and belonging on the rise. The reports also show where progress has stalled, so you can see whether what you’re noticing in your own schools is local or happening everywhere.
With one sign-up, you’ll gain access to:
3 national research reports
Comprehensive insights into staff, pupil and parent experiences in the 2025/26 academic year.
Multiple years of national trends
See which factors have shaped stakeholder experiences over the past few years.
Practical insights and strategies
Evaluate how your community compares to the national trends and where to focus improvements.
What’s inside each report:
Staff Experience Report
This year’s report puts a stronger spotlight on staff belonging and engagement, alongside wellbeing, workload, leadership and career development.
Key findings:
- For the first time, staff were asked what makes them want to stay. Of the more than 18,000 who answered, 68% named support from colleagues, ahead of pay and leadership.
- More staff feel overworked than a year ago, at 47%, even though resignation risk has held steady at 41%.
Use it to: shape your recruitment and retention strategy, check whether staff feel their feedback is acted on, and give trustees national context.
Pupil Experience Report
Explore how connected pupils feel to their school, their peers and their learning, alongside wellbeing, safety and interest in lessons, with key differences between primary and secondary settings.
Key findings:
- Secondary pupils are happier than a year ago (up from 44% to 51%), and more say teachers explain work clearly (up from 48% to 55%).
- Only 16% of secondary pupils often learn about people like themselves in class, unchanged for two years.
- Around half of pupils in Years 6 and 7 feel their opinion is valued at school, falling to 26% by Year 11.
Use it to: set priorities for school improvement, inform inclusion strategies due by 31 December, and see how pupil experience changes from Year 3 to Year 13.
Parent Experience Report
See national shifts in parental engagement, communication and confidence in schools, and the factors most strongly linked to parent satisfaction. Part of a fuller picture of how connected school communities feel.
Key findings:
- 73% of parents feel respected by their school and 63% are satisfied with how it engages them, both up on last year.
- Communication has held at 59% for three years, and 41% of parents say the trust’s role in their school is clear.
Use it to: check your parental engagement against the national picture, prioritise what parents ask for most, and tailor your approach for primary and secondary.
“One of the key benefits of Edurio’s national reports is the ability to benchmark against a national picture of staff, pupil and parent experience. When analysing our own results, we compare them against our previous year’s performance, together with the national benchmarks. This extensive national dataset provides an evidence base for our analysis, enabling us to identify priority areas for the coming year and to celebrate key successes.”
Pamela McIlroy
Trust Chief Operating Officer at The Pinnacle Operating Officer
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