As many as six in 10 schools in parts of England have buildings in urgent need of repair or replacement. Nationally, there were 7,158 state-funded schools that had at least one building with materials that were past their lifespan or at “serious risk of imminent failure”, according to a survey.
That was 32.5% of more than 22,000 surveyed across England, which means around one in three had one or more buildings with components in a bad state of disrepair. The figure for all schools is as of January 2019, around the time the survey took place.
But in the London borough of Bromley, 61 (59.2%) of its 103 schools had at least one building given the worst rating – the highest percentage of 152 areas across the country. That was followed by Kensington and Chelsea (57.5%), Brighton and Hove (53.5%) and Wakefield (53.1%).
