Primary and Secondary Pupils

HC Deb 08 February 1973 vol 850 cc152-8W

Mr. Arthur Lewis

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether she will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT details of the number of pupils at primary and secondary schools in England and Wales for the year ended December 1971, as supplied to the hon. Member for West Ham, North; why it takes one year to collate this information; and when the figures for 1972 may be expected: and whether she will publish these when they are to hand.

Mr. St. John-Stevas

The following table gives details of the number of maintained primary and secondary schools in the area of each local education authority in England and Wales in 1972, the number of full-time pupils on roll and the percentage of these pupils who were immigrants as defined for the purposes of the Department's statistics. Detailed information is collected from every school in England and Wales about the number of pupils, teachers, classes and, where appropriate, immigrants in January of each year. The returns by local education authorities to the Department are not completed until the spring. After that the checking and analysis of the details take several months, and information about immigrant pupils is not therefore available until the autumn. A summary of the information is published in the Department's "Statistics of Education".

Following is the information:

JANUARY 1972—MAINTAINED PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS
	Primary	Secondary	Primary and Secondary
Local Education Authority	Number of schools	Full-time pupils	Number of schools	Full-time pupils	Immigrants as a percentage of all pupils (See Note)
England Counties (cont.)
404 Cambs. and Isle of Ely	169	29,348	35	17,742	1.0
405 Cheshire	557	126,113	117	71,272	0.3
406 Cornwall	266	35,775	44	23,617	0.1
407 Cumberland	211	24,043	32	16,990	—
408 Derbyshire	404	70,209	85	42,913	0.3
409 Devon	305	39,635	38	25,327	0.2
410 Dorset	188	33,140	42	23,359	0.1
411 Durham	474	95,411	111	57,770	—
412 Essex	529	129,319	103	82,853	0.5
413 Gloucestershire	354	62,275	62	37,524	0.4
414 Hampshire	447	111,551	81	67,171	0.3
415 Herefordshire	105	14,378	20	9,391	0.1
416 Hertfordshire	445	101,307	115	71,025	2.0
417 Huntingdon & Peterborough	107	24,910	21	14,353	3.6
419 Isle of Wight	47	7,755	15	8,421	—
420 Isles of Scilly	5	218	1	110	—
421 Kent	585	140,633	145	88,990	1.2
422 Lancashire	1,291	285,519	246	158,898	0.8
423 Leicestershire	249	51,821	47	34,133	1.0
424 Lincolnshire, Holland	67	10,499	15	7,086	0.1
425 Lincolnshire, Kesteven	135	17,121	23	10,420	0.2
426 Lincolnshire, Lindsey	242	43,036	53	27,166	0.4
429 Norfolk	389	46,206	58	25,131	0.4
430 Northamptonshire	218	38,751	42	21,710	1.2
431 Northumberland	274	51,062	89	37,958	0.1
432 Nottinghamshire	336	73,678	82	45,503	0.3
433 Oxfordshire	166	30,214	24	17,807	0.6
435 Rutland	20	3,226	4	1,710	—
436 Shropshire (Salop)	230	36,395	46	22,650	0.7
437 Somerset	372	59,067	61	36,748	0.1
438 Staffordshire	418	83,159	85	49,694	0.2
439 Suffolk, East	159	22,816	34	15,358	0.5
440 Suffolk, West	104	17,361	21	10,599	0.3
441 Surrey	371	92,607	88	59,051	1.5
442 Sussex, East	175	36,944	33	23,963	0.6
443 Sussex, West	181	43,610	38	31,896	0.8
444 Warwickshire	333	71,101	71	43,389	2.1
445 Westmorland	72	6,982	11	4,628	0.1
446 Wiltshire	316	56,191	57	33,974	1.0
447 Worcestershire	231	44,768	53	29,715	0.6
448 Yorkshire, East Riding	150	26,324	21	16,418	—
449 Yorkshire, North Riding	244	33,308	34	19,239	0.2
450 Yorkshire, West Riding	1,050	199,387	170	121,975	0.4
Total England Counties	13,722	2,684,029	2,728	1,660,847	0.8
England County Boroughs
451 Barnsley	36	8,271	10	5,953	0.1
452 Barrow-in-Furness	29	6,950	12	4,533	0.3
453 Bath	28	7,559	7	4,929	1.9
454 Birkenhead	60	17,784	9	6,675	0.1
455 Birmingham	333	112,377	128	74,657	9.6
456 Blackburn	54	11,386	8	6,807	8.7
457 Blackpool	34	12,614	11	8,155	0.2
458 Bolton	60	17,204	21	9,910	8.5
459 Bootle	38	9,391	11	6,372	0.1
460 Bournemouth	32	10,970	12	7,719	0.9
461 Bradford	140	31,591	44	23,516	11.7
462 Brighton	44	13,915	14	8,719	1.4
463 Bristol	149	40,866	31	26,440	3.9
464 Burnley	37	8,684	8	5,896	1.4
465 Burton-upon-Trent	26	6,394	8	4,546	3.6
466 Bury	28	7,458	8	3,951	2.2
467 Canterbury	13	3,088	7	4,089	0.4
468 Carlisle	29	7,995	5	5,484	0.1

JANUARY 1972—MAINTAINED PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS
	Primary	Secondary	Primary and Secondary
Local Education Authority	Number of schools	Full-time pupils	Number of schools	Full-time pupils	Immigrants as a percentage of all pupils (See Note)
England County Boroughs (cont.)
469 Chester	28	7,130	6	4,316	0.2
470 Coventry	132	40,591	27	23,620	7.0
472 Darlington	31	8,967	9	6,697	0.7
473 Derby	88	24,394	24	14,466	6.7
474 Dewsbury	25	5,533	9	3,793	6.8
475 Doncaster	38	9,270	11	6,969	2.2
476 Dudley	78	20,146	23	11,700	3.4
477 Eastbourne	17	4,848	6	3,176	0.9
479 Exeter	29	8,627	9	5,222	0.3
480 Gateshead	42	10,049	11	6,174	0.2
481 Gloucester	39	10,983	16	7,246	4.6
482 Great Yarmouth	20	5,171	10	3,937	0.7
483 Grimsby	41	11,276	11	7,740	0.2
484 Halifax	42	9,865	13	6,366	3.0
533 Hartlepool	45	12,006	15	7,869	0.1
485 Hastings	15	5,980	5	3,871	0.2
486 Huddersfield	40	12,927	14	10,109	12.5
487 Ipswich	40	12,972	10	7,949	3.8
488 Kingston upon Hull	84	23,183	69	32,264	0.2
489 Leeds	177	52,883	55	33,546	3.7
490 Leicester	102	30,827	32	20,523	15.1
491 Lincoln	28	7,939	11	5,541	0.2
492 Liverpool	277	66,972	90	47,147	0.7
531 Luton	53	20,084	13	11,979	7.1
493 Manchester	241	62,229	57	37,850	6.2
495 Newcastle upon Tyne	88	22,001	17	14,415	1.5
496 Northampton	47	13,696	15	8,747	3.0
497 Norwich	43	11,829	7	7,401	0.4
498 Nottingham	114	33,168	31	21,423	5.1
499 Oldham	52	12,204	10	7,179	4.3
500 Oxford	40	10,243	14	6,576	7.0
501 Plymouth	89	24,863	33	15,925	0.1
502 Portsmouth	63	18,006	24	11,659	0.7
503 Preston	45	11,223	10	7,161	11.3
504 Reading	43	13,407	13	8,897	7.3
505 Rochdale	31	9,666	11	7,488	7.2
506 Rotherham	33	9,711	9	6,342	1.2
507 St. Helens	57	12,746	13	7,169	0.1
508 Salford	64	16,013	16	8,768	1.4
509 Sheffield	194	55,036	34	32,873	2.6
530 Solihull	42	12,367	13	7,674	0.2
511 Southampton	69	25,511	21	12,502	2.8
512 Southend-on-Sea	47	14,310	16	11,248	1.2
513 Southport	26	7,878	8	5,283	0.3
514 South Shields	43	10,841	14	7,737	0.1
515 Stockport	55	14,877	15	8,689	0.6
516 Stoke-on-Trent	128	32,514	25	13,392	1.2
517 Sunderland	83	25,767	24	16,901	0.1
535 Teesside	183	50,918	54	34,800	0.7
534 Torbay	31	8,079	10	5,776	0.3
518 Tynemouth	29	7,821	6	5,008	0.1
519 Wakefield	26	6,501	7	3,619	1.5
520 Wallasey	27	8,311	17	9,070	0.3
521 Walsall	75	20,056	19	13,626	8.7
532 Warley	60	18,189	22	9,636	10.8
522 Warrington	39	8,186	12	4,896	0.5
523 West Bromwich	71	19,306	11	11,685	6.1
526 Wigan	38	9,329	11	4,970	0.2
527 Wolverhampton	102	30,643	29	19,601	13.1
528 Worcester	31	7,954	8	5,443	1.3
529 York	39	10,633	17	7,804	0.1
Total England County Boroughs	5,169	1,443,153	1,526	939,804	4.2

JANUARY 1972—MAINTAINED PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS
	Primary	Secondary	Primary and Secondary
Local Education Authority	Number of schools	Full-time pupils	Number of schools	Full-time pupils	Immigrants as a percentage of all pupils (See Note)
Outer London Boroughs
301 Barking	62	16,935	11	11,410	2.2
302 Barnet	92	25,897	31	19,867	9.4
303 Bexley	71	22,472	19	13,753	2.0
304 Brent	75	27,056	19	15,826	27.6
305 Bromley	90	28,856	32	18,744	2.4
306 Croydon	98	34,701	33	20,353	8.1
307 Ealing	82	29,294	28	16,592	23.4
308 Enfield	88	25,331	22	16,638	7.3
309 Harringay	78	24,159	16	14,173	28.7
310 Harrow	50	19,058	21	11,802	6.1
311 Havering	86	26,564	27	18,757	0.8
312 Hillingdon	79	23,668	23	15,635	3.5
313 Hounslow	64	19,844	15	12,658	11.5
314 Kingston upon Thames	41	11,960	13	7,973	3.3
315 Merton	39	10,775	26	14,648	7.9
316 Newham	88	24,458	27	15,906	18.0
317 Redbridge	66	21,290	26	13,302	5.7
318 Richmond upon Thames	52	12,988	16	7,978	3.9
319 Sutton	44	14,094	16	10,049	1.8
320 Waltham Forest	64	21,230	27	13,705	11.7
Total London (Outer Boroughs)	1,409	440,630	448	289,769	9.9
427 London (Inner)	883	238,926	211	164,924	17.3
Total London (Inner and Outer)	2,292	679,556	659	454,693	12.5
Total England	21,183	4,806,738	4,913	3,055,344	3.5
Wales Counties
550 Anglesey	51	6,837	4	4,305	0.1
551 Breconshire	68	5,833	6	3,762	—
552 Caernarvonshire	110	12,304	14	7,692	0.1
553 Cardiganshire	90	5,383	7	4,081	—
554 Carmarthenshire	185	16,482	21	11,220	0.1
555 Denbighshire	149	19,708	22	12,578	0.1
556 Flintshire	98	21,664	17	12,030	0.1
557 Glamorgan	441	88,321	89	53,164	0.1
558 Merioneth	51	3,618	5	2,488	—
559 Monmouthshire	270	41,832	41	25,673	0.1
560 Montgomeryshire	59	4,607	6	3,253	0.1
561 Pembrokeshire	104	11,301	12	7,882	0.1
562 Radnorshire	31	1,923	5	1,298	—
Total (Counties)	1,707	239,813	249	149,426	0.1
Wales County Boroughs
563 Cardiff	114	30,127	21	21,308	1.5
564 Merthyr Tydfil	30	5,967	4	4,331	—
565 Newport (Mon.)	45	13,717	9	8,429	2.0
566 Swansea	81	18,545	16	12,588	0.2
Total (County Boroughs)	270	68,356	50	46,656	1.1
Total Wales	1,977	308,169	299	196,082	0.3
Total England and Wales	23,160	5,114,907	5,212	3,251,426	3.3

NOTE: For the purposes of these statistics immigrant pupils are defined as:

(a) children born outside the United Kingdom who came to this country with, or to join parents or guardians whose country of origin were abroad; and

(b) children born in the United Kindom to parents whose countries of origin were abroad and who came to the United Kingdom on or after 1st January 1962.