§ Mr. Bostonasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) how many children are attending comprehensive schools; and what is his estimate of the number who will be attending such schools by the end of 1965;
(2) what is the percentage of secondary school age children attending comprehensive schools; and what is his estimate of the percentage who will be attending such schools by the end of 1965;
(3) how many comprehensive schools there are at present; and what is his estimate of the number there will be by the end of 1965;
103W(4) what is or will be the percentage of secondary school age children being taught in comprehensive schools planned, including those completed, by 15th October, 1964;
(5) what was the percentage of secondary school age children being taught in comprehensive schools planned, including those completed, by 25th October, 1951;
(6) what was the total number of comprehensive schools planned, including those completed, by 15th October, 1964;
(7) how many comprehensive schools were planned, including those completed, by 25th October, 1951;
(8) if he will set out in the OFFICIAL REPORT the number of children in each county being taught in comprehensive schools, his estimate of the number in each county who will be attending such schools by the end of 1965, and the percentages of secondary school age children these numbers represent in each case;
(9) If he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT, the present number of comprehensive schools in each county, and his estimate of the number of such schools in each county at the end of 1965;
(10) if he will set out in the OFFICIAL REPORT the percentage in each county of secondary school age children who are or will be attending comprehensive schools planned, including those completed, by 15th October, 1964;
(11) if he will set out in the OFFICIAL REPORT the percentage in each county of secondary school age children who were being taught in comprehensive schools planned, including those completed, by 25th October, 1951.
§ Mr. CroslandThe statistics of schools and pupils collected by my Department relate to January of each year. The latest available relate to January 1964. Figures For intermediate dates and estimates for future dates are not available, nor are detailed figures for schools not yet in existence or schools which it is proposed to re-organise on comprehensive lines.
The following information relates only to comprehensive schools with the full secondary age range which are classified as such in the returns made by local education authorities to my Department.
In 1952, there were five comprehensive schools in England and Wales, four with 104W 3,820 pupils—2.9 per cent, of pupils in all secondary schools—in London and one with 613 pupils—0.7 per cent.—in Middlesex. In January, 1964, there were 195 comprehensive schools in England and Wales as follows:
Number of Schools Number of Pupils Pupils in comprehensive schools as a percentage of Pupils in all Secondary Schools ENGLAND Counties Cornwall 1 540 2.6 Cumberland 1 1,138 7.3 Derbyshire 1 1,069 2.3 Devon 1 1,058 3.7 Dorset 3 2,087 11.0 Essex 2 1,695 1.4 Lancashire 4 6,675 5.1 London 74 84,892 49.5 Middlesex 2 2,403 1.9 Oxfordshire 2 1,227 10.0 Staffordshire 5 4,407 7.1 Sussex, West 2 2,865 11.6 Warwickshire 1 1,541 3.9 Westmorland 3 1,047 26.5 Yorkshire, West Riding 14 16,957 13.0 County Boroughs Birmingham 4 3,794 5.2 Bradford 1 1,041 5.8 Bristol 16 15,034 55.0 Coventry 8 8,794 45.4 Leeds 3 4,247 14.2 Liverpool 2 2,339 4.9 Manchester 2 2,411 6.0 Newcastle upon Tyne 1 1,171 7.7 Nottingham 1 1,449 6.9 Sheffield 2 1,659 6.3 Sunderland 1 778 6.3 Walsall 1 1,153 13.6 West Bromwich WALES 1 1,865 27.5 Counties Anglesey 4 4,044 100.0 Breconshire 3 1,705 44.1 Caernarvonshire 5 2,473 33.0 Cardiganshire 4 2,351 58.9 Carmarthenshire 1 438 4.2 Denbighshire 1 731 6.1 Glamorgan 1 1,611 3.2 Merioneth 4 1,941 82.6 Montgomeryshire 6 2,164 68.3 Pembrokeshire 4 2,572 36.3 County Boroughs Newport 1 1,271 17.1 Swansea 2 2,608 25.5 ENGLAND AND WALES All Counties 149 149,631 7.6 All County Boroughs 46 49,614 5.8 TOTAL 195 199,245 7.0