§ Shona McIsaacTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the average class size in each infant school in Cleethorpes constituency since 1995. [122347]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisInformation on individual schools is not normally published. Where individual school information is published, as in the School Performance tables, the information is first checked with the schools concerned. The latest available information on infant class sizes in the parliamentary constituency of Cleethorpes is shown in the table.
Provisional national estimates of infant class sizes in England for January 2000 was recently published in a Statistical First Release "Class sizes in Maintained schools in England: January 2000" on 12 April 2000. Prior to this, information on infant class sizes for September 1999 was published in Statistical First Release "Infant class sizes in England: September 1999" on 21 January 2000. Copies of both publications are available from the Library.
Average Size of infant classes1 taught by one teacher in maintained primary schools in the parliamentary constituency of Cleethorpes: 1995–20002 Position as at January Average Class size 20022 24.7 1999 26.5 1998 28.3 1997 27.5 1996 3— 1995 3— 1Key Stage 1 Classes 2Provisional 3Not available