UK SIC 2007 85200: Primary education

Maps to NACE Rev. 2 85.20 and NACE Rev. 2.1 85.20. ISIC Rev. 4: 8510.

UK SIC 2007 code 85200 is "Primary education". UK SIC 2007 follows NACE Rev. 2 at four digits and adds a national fifth digit, so the first four digits, 85.20, are the NACE Rev. 2 class "Primary education". UK companies state one or more SIC codes when they file at Companies House, and the codes appear in the company record. In NACE Rev. 2.1 the matching class is 85.20, "Primary education".

Conversion

Classification	Code	Label
UK SIC 2007	85200	Primary education
NACE Rev. 2	85.20	Primary education
NACE Rev. 2.1	85.20	Primary education
ISIC Rev. 4	8510

What the class includes (NACE Rev. 2 notes)

This class includes primary education: the furnishing of academic courses and associated course work that give students a sound basic education in reading, writing and mathematics and an elementary understanding of other subjects such as history, geography, natural science, social science, art and music. Such education is generally provided for children, however the provision of literacy programmes within or outside the school system, which are similar in content to programmes in primary education but are intended for those considered too old to enter elementary schools, is also included (i.e. adult literacy programmes).

What it excludes

This class excludes: - adult education as defined in 85.5 - child day-care activities, including day nurseries for pupils, see 88.91

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UK SIC 2007: Companies House condensed list of the ONS classification (gov.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0), read 2026-10-05. NACE data: EU Vocabularies (CC BY 4.0). Information only.