HC Deb 02 July 1969 vol 786 cc98-9W
Mr. Wright

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish a list of the pupil-teacher ratio for each Scottish education authority for the latest available date and the position for the comparative date in 1964.

Mr. Ross

The information is as follows:

PUPIL-TEACHER RATIO
1964 1968
Burghs
Aberdeen (City) 19.2 18.7
Dundee 23.3 23.1
Edinburgh 24.7 23.8
Glasgow 26.2 26.0
Counties
Aberdeen (County) 21.0 20.0
Angus 22.8 22.4
Argyll 20.1 19.4
Ayr 23.8 22.9
Banff 20.5 21.4
Berwick 19.4 18.5
Bute 19.3 19.2
Caithness 22.4 21.7
Clackmannan 22.0 21.2
Dumfries 23.2 22.5
Dunbarton 25.7 24.2
East Lothian 22.9 23.2
Fife 22.5 22.2
Inverness 21.1 20.8
Kincardine 21.0 20.1
Kirkcudbright 19.8 19.5
Lanark 26.1 26.7
Midlothian 23.2 23.2
Moray and Nairn 24.8 23.7
Orkney 19.1 18.3
Peebles 21.1 21.9
Perth and Kinross 21.9 20.9
Renfrew 26.5 26.5
Ross and Cromarty 20.3 19.7
Roxburgh 22.4 22.8
Selkirk 22.8 22.1
Stirling 24.0 23.2
Sutherland 16.9 17.4
West Lothian 24.1 22.5
Wigtown 23.8 21.6
Zetland 17.5 17.8
SCOTLAND 24.0 23.6

Note: The figures for each education authority are based on the numbers of full-time teachers only, since figures for part-time teachers are not available for 1964.

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