§ Mr. D. E. Thomasasked the Secretary of State of Education and Science how many local education authorities in England have established sixth form colleges during the last five years, and how many had been established before that; and what proportion of sixth form students of each of the local education authorities receive their education at such colleges.
§ Mr. Dunn[pursuant to his reply, 12 June 1986, c. 276]: There were 106 maintained secondary schools in January 1985 in local education authorities in England which were classified as sixth form colleges in the Department's annual census of schools compared with 96 schools five years later.
Over this period, 17 new sixth form colleges were established, according to the census, six were reclassified as tertiary colleges and one closed. The table lists the local authorities which had sixth form colleges recorded in the January 1985 census and gives the proportion of pupils aged 16 to 19 years in maintained schools in the local authorities who attended these colleges.
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The number of sixth form colleges and the proportion of 16 to 19-year-olds in the maintained sector being taught there England, January 1985 Number of sixth form colleges Percentage of 16 to 19 pupils being taught there Barnet 1 15 Harrow 4 99 Birmingham 4 23 Dudley 1 48 Sandwell 2 55 Solihull 1 74 Sefton 1 24 Bolton 2 47 Bury 3 100 Manchester 5 85 Salford 3 100 Stockport 1 9 Tameside 2 95 Wigan 2 77 Barnsley 1 57 Rotherham 1 29 Kirklees 3 50 North Tyneside 1 42 Avon 1 10 Bedfordshire 1 31 Cambridgeshire 2 33 Cheshire 3 19 Cleveland 9 92 Cornwall 2 35 Cumbria 1 13
Number of sixth form colleges Percentage of 16 to 19 pupils being taught there Durham 1 21 East Sussex 4 42 Essex 2 17 Hampshire 10 82 Hereford and Worcester 2 21 Humberside 1 15 Lancashire 2 25 Leicestershire 4 34 Norfolk 2 18 North Yorkshire 1 12 Nottinghamshire 3 26 Oxfordshire 1 17 Salop 3 55 Somerset 1 34 Staffordshire 1 18 Surrey 7 51 Warwickshire 1 15 West Sussex 3 41