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Mr. St. John-Stevas
The Schools Regulations no longer prescribe the maximum size of classes in maintained schools, but the following table shows by local authority areas the percentage in January 1972 of primary school classes as registered with over 40 pupils. The concept of "classes as registered" is, of course, purely a statistical one. Many of the largest classes as so defined are for much of the time sub-divided for teaching purposes.
| PERCENTAGE OF PRIMARY SCHOOL CLASSES AS REGISTERED * WITH OVER 40 PUPILS JANUARY 1972. |
| England: Counties |
| Bedfordshire |
1.8 |
| Berkshire |
3.1 |
| Buckinghamshire |
2.7 |
| Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely |
0.9 |
| Cheshire |
6.0 |
| Cornwall |
5.7 |
| Cumberland |
4.8 |
| Derbyshire |
2.5 |
| Devon |
1.5 |
| Dorset |
5.2 |
| Durham |
1.0 |
| Essex |
1.4 |
| Gloucestershire |
1.5 |
| Hampshire |
1.1 |
| Herefordshire |
0.8 |
| Hertfordshire |
1.9 |
| Huntingdon and Peterborough |
0.7 |
| Isle of Wight |
— |
| Isles of Scilly |
— |
| Kent |
1.3 |
| Lancashire |
5.2 |
| Leicestershire |
3.3 |
| Lincs—Holland |
2.2 |
| Lincs—Kesteven |
3.3 |
| Lincs—Lindsey |
4.7 |
| Norfolk |
1.5 |
| Northamptonshire |
4.8 |
| Northumberland |
1.6 |
| Nottinghamshire |
3.3 |
| Oxfordshire |
1.5 |
| Rutland |
1.8 |
| Shropshire (Salop) |
1.6 |
| Somerset |
3.6 |
| Staffordshire |
3.1 |
| Suffolk, East |
3.2 |
| Suffolk, West |
2.0 |
| Surrey |
3.7 |
| Sussex, East |
2.4 |
| Sussex, West |
2.5 |
| Warwickshire |
2.2 |
| Westmorland |
6.5 |
| Wiltshire |
0.9 |
| Worcestershire |
1.5 |
| Yorks, East Riding |
1.7 |
| Yorks, North Riding |
4.1 |
| Yorks, West Riding |
1.3 |
(*) Excluding classes in middle schools deemed primary, for which information about classes as registered was not obtained.
| England: County Boroughs |
| Barnsley |
— |
| Barrow-in-Furness |
— |
| Bath |
1.7 |
| Birkenhead |
5.8 |
| Birmingham |
3.7 |
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| Blackburn |
3.2 |
| Blackpool |
14.6 |
| Bolton |
7.9 |
| Bootle |
— |
| Bournemouth |
1.3 |
| Bradford |
2.2 |
| Brighton |
2.8 |
| Bristol |
1.4 |
| Burnley |
1.5 |
| Burton-upon-Trent |
0.5 |
| Bury |
5.2 |
| Canterbury |
— |
| Carlisle |
1.7 |
| Chester |
1.7 |
| Coventry |
4.0 |
| Darlington |
0.4 |
| Derby |
2.0 |
| Dewsbury |
4.7 |
| Doncaster |
3.8 |
| Dudley |
1.9 |
| Eastbourne |
9.7 |
| Exeter |
1.4 |
| Gateshead |
2.5 |
| Gloucester |
1.8 |
| Great Yarmouth |
3.2 |
| Grimsby |
1.1 |
| Halifax |
2.5 |
| Hartlepool |
0.8 |
| Hastings |
5.4 |
| Huddersfield |
4.0 |
| Ipswich |
1.8 |
| Kingston upon Hull |
1.0 |
| Leeds |
3.5 |
| Leicester |
1.0 |
| Lincoln |
3.6 |
| Liverpool |
2.9 |
| Luton |
1.1 |
| Manchester |
2.3 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne |
0.1 |
| Northampton |
2.3 |
| Norwich |
0.3 |
| Nottingham |
3.5 |
| Oldham |
6.4 |
| Oxford |
2.2 |
| Plymouth |
— |
| Portsmouth |
0.9 |
| Preston |
4.6 |
| Reading |
0.5 |
| Rochdale |
6.3 |
| Rotherham |
6.5 |
| St. Helens |
2.6 |
| Salford |
3.9 |
| Sheffield |
2.3 |
| Solihull |
2.9 |
| Southampton |
2.6 |
| Southend-on-Sea |
1.1 |
| Southport |
8.2 |
| South Shields |
3.6 |
| Stockport |
7.1 |
| Stoke-on-Trent |
— |
| Sunderland |
0.5 |
| Teesside |
5.6 |
| Torbay |
12.0 |
| Tynemouth |
0.4 |
| Wakefield |
— |
| Wallasey |
1.5 |
| Walsall |
6.1 |
| Warley |
1.7 |
| Warrington |
11.4 |
| West Bromwich |
8.6 |
| Wigan |
— |
| Wolverhampton |
4.6 |
| Worcester |
2.8 |
| York |
— |
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| Outer London Boroughs |
| Barking |
0.6 |
| Barnet |
3.0 |
| Bexley |
0.6 |
| Brent |
3.4 |
| Bromley |
— |
| Croydon |
4.3 |
| Ealing |
1.0 |
| Enfield |
1.7 |
| Haringey |
0.5 |
| Harrow |
4.2 |
| Havering |
3.8 |
| Hillingdon |
3.0 |
| Hounslow |
0.5 |
| Kingston upon Thames |
0.6 |
| Merton |
1.5 |
| Newham |
1.7 |
| Redbridge |
0.8 |
| Richmond upon Thames |
3.6 |
| Sutton |
3.2 |
| Waltham Forest |
0.3 |
| London (Inner) |
1.1 |
| Wales: Counties |
| Anglesey |
— |
| Breconshire |
1.2 |
| Caernarvonshire |
0.4 |
| Cardiganshire |
0.4 |
| Carmarthenshire |
0.3 |
| Denbighshire |
1.8 |
| Flintshire |
2.7 |
| Glamorgan |
0.3 |
| Merioneth |
0.5 |
| Monmouthshire |
0.9 |
| Montgomeryshire |
1.9 |
| Pembrokeshire |
0.2 |
| Radnorshire |
— |
| Wales: County Boroughs |
| Cardiff |
0.4 |
| Merthyr Tydfil |
1.6 |
| Newport (Mon.) |
3.3 |
| Swansea |
1.7 |
| England and Wales |
2.5 |