§ Mr. ChaytorTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list for each local authority retaining a selective admissions system(a) the total number of pupils in years seven to 11 in maintained schools and (b) the percentages of this total in the schools designated by his Department as (i) grammar, (ii) modern and (iii) comprehensive. [145028]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisThe information requested is shown in the table.
Education (Grammar School Designation)(Amendment) Order 1999, No. 2456 are those designated as grammar schools for the purposes of Chapter II of Part III of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998. The list of schools and subsequent amendments can be found in the Statutory Instruments 1998 No. 2219 and 1999 No. 2456 on the following Government website www.legislation.hm so.gov.uk.
Information about individual schools is not normally published. Where individual school information is published as in the School Performance tables, the 251W information is first checked with the schools concerned. These data on (a) the total number of pupils, and (b) the number of pupils aged 16+ are available in the performance tables which can be accessed on the Department's website www.dfee.gov.uk/perform.