Infant Class Sizes (South Tyneside)

HC Deb 11 July 2002 vol 388 cc1169-70W

Mr. Hepburn

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the average infant class size in South Tyneside was in each year since 1997: what the average sizes were in England in those years; and how many infants there were in classes in South Tyneside in each of these years. [67046]

Mr. Ivan Lewis

The information requested is shown in the table.

Key Stage I classes taught by one teacher in maintained primary schools1—position in January each year: Time series 1997 to 2002 (provisional)—England and South Tyneside local education authority
	South Tyneside	England
	Number of pupils	Average class size	Number of pupils	Average class size
1997	5.669	26.6	1,646,660	26.9
1998	5.583	27.0	1,654,287	27.1
1999	5.441	25.0	1,629,716	26.5
2000	5.333	24.6	1,614,641	25.8
2001	5.031	24.0	1,575,160	25.2
20022	4.660	24.3	1,550,373	25.2

¹Classes as taught during the one selected period in each school on the day of the census in January

²Provisional

Source:

Annual Schools' Census