Primary and Secondary Pupils (Hansard, 20 April 1988)

§ Mr. Dunn

The number and proportion of pupils in maintained primary and secondary schools in classes of over 30 pupils in each local education authority in England in January 1987 is given in the table. The analyses relate to classes taught by one teacher at a selected time on the day of the census count in January and do not necessarily represent the pattern of classes over the academic year as a whole.

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	Primary¹	Secondary¹
	Pupils	per cent.	Pupils	per cent.
Waltham Forest	2,115	14.5	93	0.8
Inner London	3,159	2.5	2,165	2.3
Birmingham	28,543	33.0	7,632	11.8
Coventry	5,065	21.2	1,035	5.2
Dudley	7,118	29.0	736	4.0
Sandwell	6,426	25.0	828	4.2
Solihull	5,199	32.3	1,520	10.2
Walsall	3,172	15.4	1,048	5.0
Wolverhampton	2,832	14.1	753	4.4
Knowsley	1,931	12.9	552	5.4
Liverpool	6,048	14.6	2,572	9.0
St. Helens	3,741	25.0	956	7.0
Sefton	5,726	24.9	1,970	10.3
Wirral	4,528	17.1	1,875	8.9
Bolton	9,378	42.3	1,411	8.0
Bury	4,049	30.3	1,668	15.4
Manchester	6,765	19.4	1,702	6.6
Oldham	7,282	38.2	1,035	7.3
Rochdale	4,845	31.5	707	4.7
Salford	3,674	18.9	573	4.0
Stockport	6,117	27.6	1,849	9.8
Tameside	5,051	28.1	1,210	8.5
Trafford	5,470	37.2	426	3.5
Wigan	7,241	29.6	1,305	5.7
Barnsley	1,795	10.1	375	2.5
Doncaster	2,801	11.9	1,369	6.5
Rotherham	2,216	10.3	1,516	8.6
Sheffield	3,314	9.0	924	3.1
Bradford	4,191	14.2	3,199	8.3
Calderdale	4,187	25.5	1,088	8.8
Kirklees	6,536	21.9	1,620	5.9
Leeds	10,449	25.7	4,807	9.2
Wakefield	4,599	20.5	2,037	8.9
Gateshead	825	5.1	945	7.7
Newcastle-upon-Tyne	3,245	18.6	583	3.4
North Tyneside	417	3.0	441	3.2
South Tyneside	1,357	10.7	283	3.0
Sunderland	3,680	14.1	2,052	10.5
Isles of Scilly²	0	0.0	0	0.0
Avon	32,201	46.1	5,323	9.8
Bedfordshire	8,165	24.3	3,510	8.7
Berkshire	16,784	32.8	4,889	10.6
Buckinghamshire	23,699	43.6	2,066	6.4
Cambridgeshire	14,641	29.7	4,285	11.2
Cheshire	28,981	37.7	9,871	14.7
Cleveland	8,046	16.5	1,788	4.4
Cornwall	11,714	34.3	3,657	12.6
Cumbria	5,897	16.5	2,048	6.2
Derbyshire	18,316	26.6	6,218	10.3
Devon	17,363	26.0	5,123	9.2
Dorset	13,800	40.0	3,293	9.1
Durham	11,600	23.8	3,644	10.0
East Sussex	13,783	33.7	4,135	12.0
Essex	30,912	26.8	8,796	8.8
Gloucestershire	12,972	34.2	4,022	12.7
Hampshire	33,760	29.9	7,496	8.5
Hereford and Worcester	13,386	30.9	6,355	13.0
Hertfordshire	17,240	24.2	6,431	9.7
Humberside	10,135	16.5	5,524	8.4
Isle of Wight	1,753	29.5	1,085	11.4
Kent	40,142	36.8	6,828	7.0
Lancashire	41,735	38.6	8,446	9.9
Leicestershire	13,422	19.5	1,323	2.3
Lincolnshire	17,091	39.7	3,073	8.6
Norfolk	12,049	21.8	2,295	5.5
North Yorkshire	11,161	23.2	5,063	11.6
Northamptonshire	10,243	24.2	3,335	8.2

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	Primary¹	Secondary¹
	Pupils	per cent.	Pupils	per cent.
Northumberland	7,340	40.0	2,339	9.3
Nottinghamshire	7,611	10.7	3,419	5.6
Oxfordshire	8,212	24.3	2,488	7.6
Shropshire	5,389	18.4	2,356	8.6
Somerset	10,582	34.5	3,267	11.5
Staffordshire	17,290	23.4	8,987	12.4
Suffolk	6,042	15.5	2,485	5.9
Surrey	13,935	21.1	4,338	9.6
Warwickshire	11,019	28.9	2,412	9.2
West Sussex	11,914	26.0	4,709	11.8
Wiltshire	8,593	21.9	3,048	8.7
England	848,960	24.8	243,230	8.3
¹ Includes middle schools as deemed.
² There were no classes with over 30 pupils in the Isles of Scilly in either primary or secondary schools.