§ Mr. Edenasked the Minister of Education how many primary and secondary schools there are in Bournemouth today; how many children now attend at each school; what is the permissible maximum; what is the foreseeable demand over the next five years; and what new schools are now being built.
§ Sir E. BoyleThe 32 primary and 14 secondary schools maintained by the Bournemouth local education authority have 8,991 and 7,701 pupils, respectively. Corresponding estimates for 1968 are 9,900 and 6,350. I do not lay down maximum numbers of pupils but the capacity of the primary and secondary schools can reasonably be estimated at 9,250 and 7,630 places respectively. No new schools are under construction but one primary school is in the building programme for 1962–63.