The State of Music Education in English Schools: A Landscape Briefing Paper

This Briefing paper was prepared prior to a debate on Music education in the House of Lords on Tuesday 24th June 2025. Its aim was to draw attention to statistics on the state of music education in state schools drawn from publicly available sources. It is important to note that counting methodologies have been revised in the official statistics, which means that newer data releases will contain different year on year headcounts. The figures used in this paper were those available in early June 2025, and were not those using the revised methodology as these had not been published at the time of writing.