---
id: "ukurn"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["education"]
langs: ["en"]
quality: 90
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/ukurn"
---

# UK school URN (`ukurn`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Unique Reference Number (URN) of a school or other educational establishment in the Get Information about Schools register of the UK Department for Education: six digits.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Education (education)
- Countries: global
- Languages: English (en)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^[14]\d{5}$
```

## Examples

- `101846` — Old Palace of John Whitgift School
- `133863` — University of Oxford
- `133801` — University of Cambridge

## Mappings

- orgid: `GB-EDU`
- wikidata: `P2253`

## Metacrafter rules

2 rules: 1 match the field name, 1 match values.

- `enukurnfield` (field, `gb/gb_education.yaml`)
- `enukurnvalue` (data, `gb/gb_education.yaml`)

## Supported by tools

- `metacrafter`

## Sources

- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2253>

## Quality

Score 90/100. Missing: negative example, translation.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/ukurn.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/education/ukurn.yaml>