HC Deb 01 February 1995 vol 253 cc735-7W
Mrs. Ray Michie

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) what was the number and percentage of pupils in primary schools in(a) January 1992 and (b) January 1994, being taught in classes of over 30 in (i) each local education authority and (ii) in total; and what was the percentage change;

(2) what was the number and percentage of pupils in secondary schools in (a) January 1992 and (b) January

Education authority primary schools
September 1991 September 1993
Education authority Number of pupils in classes over 30 Percentage of all pupils Number of pupils in classes over 30 Percentage of all pupils Percentage change
Scotland 72,202 16.4 74,894 17.1 +0.7
Borders 448 5.3 544 6.3 +1.0
Centra] 3,954 16.9 3,972 17.1 +0.2
Dumfries and Galloway 2,137 16.7 2,052 15.9 -0.8
Fife 4,944 15.9 5,435 17.5 +1.6
Grampian 6,900 15.6 6,556 14.6 -1.0
Highland 1,503 7.6 1,996 10.4 +2.8
Lothian 11,344 20.2 11,885 20.7 +0.5
Strathclyde 34,235 16.7 34,642 17.2 +0.5
Tayside 6,580 20.3 7,558 23.1 +2.8
Orkney 157 8.7 64 3.5 -5.2
Shetland — 0.0 — 0.0 0.0
Western Isles — 0.0 190 7.2 +7.2

Strathclyde Divisions
September 1991 September 1993
Education authority Number of pupils in classes over 30 Percentage of all pupils Number of pupils in classes over 30 Percentage of all pupils Percentage change
Argyll and Bute 538 9.5 287 5.3 -4.2
Ayr 6,424 18.7 6,478 19.2 +0.4
Dunbarton 5,798 19.2 5,138 17.5 -1.7

1994, being taught in classes of over 30 in (i) each local education authority and (ii) in total; and what was the percentage change.

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

The information on class size is that which is collected biennially in the September school census. The information requested, for education authority primary and secondary schools at September 1991 and September 1993, is given:

Strathclyde Divisions
September 1991 September 1993
Education authority Number of pupils in classes over 30 Percentage of all pupils Number of pupils in classes over 30 Percentage of all pupils Percentage change
Glasgow 8,321 14.6 8,068 14.3 -0.3
Lanark 7,172 15.4 6,717 14.8 -0.5
Renfrew 5,982 18.8 7,954 25.2 +6.3

Education authority secondary schools'
September 1991 September 1993
Education authority Number of pupils in subject classes ver 30 Percentage of all pupils in subject classes Number of pupils in subject classes over 30 Percentage of all pupils in subject classes Percentage change
Scotland2 57,109 1.7 89,069 2.5 +0.8
Borders 31 0.0 342 0.5 +0.5
Central 3,497 1.7 535 0.3 -1.4
Dumfries and Galloway 1,530 1.5 615 0.6 -0.9
Fife 1,765 0.8 2,371 0.9 +0.1
Grampian2 1,129 0.3 4,189 1.2 +0.9
Highland 2,015 1.3 3,616 2.0 +0.7
Lothian 2,311 0.6 8,996 2.1 +1.5
Strathclyde 41,869 2.8 62,282 3.8 +1.0
Tayside 2,962 1.2 6,123 2.4 +1.2
Orkney 0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0
Shetland 0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0
Western Isles 0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0

Strathclyde Divisions
September 1991 September 1993
Education authority Number of pupils in subject classes over 30 Percentage of all pupils in subjest classes Number of pupils in subject classes over 30 Percentage of all pupils in subject classes Percentage change
Argyll and Bute 2,153 4.6 155 0.3 -4.3
Ayr 4,246 1.7 2,715 1.0 -0.7
Dunbarton 560 0.2 13,975 5.4 +5.2
Glasgow 11,501 3.3 15,224 4.0 +0.7
Lanark 14,595 4.0 9,168 2.3 -1.7
Renfrew 8,814 3.5 21,045 7.9 +4.4
1 The information available only allows the numbers of pupils in classes over 30 to be estimated from the average class size of a subject-stage entry in each school's timetable. Pupils are counted once for each subject taken.
2 The figures for 1993 exclude two schools for which information is not available.