§ Mr. Oswaldasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the current average pupil/teacher ratio in secondary and primary schools, respectively, in each of the Scottish education authority areas.
§ Mr. Gordon CampbellThe following table shows the number of pupils per teacher in education authority schools in January, 1971. The teacher numbers used in working out the figures include the full-time equivalent of part-time teachers but exclude all supply, relief and visiting teachers, and unregistered teachers.
Burghs Primary Secondary Aberdeen … 22.8 13.8 Dundee … 26.1 15.5 Edinburgh … 28.0 16.1 Glasgow … 33.1 17.4 Counties Aberdeen … 24.5 15.1 Angus … 26.3 16.0 Argyll … 23.3 16.2 Ayr … 28.7 16.0 Banff … 25.6 15.5 Berwick … 22.9 13.0 Bute … 27.8 13.2 Caithness … 26.8 16.8 Clackmannan … 27.1 13.3 Dumfries … 28.1 15.4 Dunbarton … 26.9 15.8 East Lothian … 30.9 16.8 Fife … 29.2 15.2 Inverness … 22.6 15.9 Kincardine … 24.8 13.3 Kirkcudbright … 25.4 12.4 Lanark … 32.8 18.6 Midlothian … 29.0 16.2 Moray and Nairn … 28.3 16.6 Orkney … 22.0 14.0 Peebles … 26.8 16.8 Perth and Kinross … 24.5 14.5 Renfrew … 31.8 19.8 Ross and Cromarty … 22.3 14.4 Roxburgh … 25.0 14.8 Selkirk … 27.7 15.5 Stirling … 25.0 16.4 Sutherland … 22.3 11.9 West Lothian … 26.2 16.5 Wigtown … 25.9 15.5 Zetland … 22.0 12.5 Total … 28.7 16.4