HC Deb 11 March 1981 vol 1000 cc347-8W
Mr. Pawsey

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish in the Official Report total

Mr. Macfarlane

The number and percentage of 16 to 19-year-olds in school and non-advanced further education in Wolverhampton and the West Midlands during the academic year 1978–79, the latest information available, was as follows:

or estimated maintained school pupil numbers in each of the years from 1979 to the furthest possible projection for (a) primary schools, (b) secondary schools and (c) total primary and secondary schools.

Dr. Boyson

Actual and projected pupil numbers for maintained primary and secondary schools in England are as given below.

The figures, especially those for primary, become increasingly uncertain in the later years of this table: by the late 1990s the school population will almost entirely comprise children not yet born.

Thousands, January of each year*
Primary† Secondary Total
1979 4,138 3,872 8,010
1980 3,980 3,866 7,846
1981 3,808 3,83,0 7,638
1982 3,642 3,764 7,406
1983 3,453 3,712 7,165
1984 3,332 3,623 6,955
1985 3,287 3,507 6,794
1986 3,294 3,370 6,664
1987 3,325 3,234 6,559
1988 3,399 3,067 6,466
1989 3,509 2,916 6,425
1990 3,626 2,811 6,437
1991 3,719 2,783 6,502
1992 3,813 2,796 6,609
1993 3,917 2,841 6,758
1994 4,021 2,916 6,937
1995 4,115 3,005 7,120
1996 4,194 3,081 7,275
* Actual to 1980, projected from 1981 on; middle schools included according to whether deemed primary or secondary.
† Aged 5 and over.

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