HC Deb 21 July 1976 vol 915 cc508-11W
Mr. Nicholas Winterton

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list all the six form colleges in England and Wales with the number of pupils at such colleges; and if he will list all schools with a sixth form of more than 150 pupils.

Miss Margaret Jackson

Listed below are all the sixth form colleges in England with numbers of pupils as at January 1975. The numbers given exclude pupils under 16 in cases where the colleges are still at an interim stage of reorganisation. Schools in Wales are the responsibility of my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.

Local Education Authority Name of College Numbers on Roll January 1975
Bedfordshire Luton Sixth Form College 663
Cambridgeshire Hills Road Sixth Form College 196
Long Road Sixth Form College 212
Cheshire Widnes Junior College 355
Cleveland Prior Pursglove Sixth Form College 299
Bede Sixth Form College 185
South Park Sixth Form College 264
Stockton Sixth Form College 474
Acklam Sixth Form College 372
Marton Sixth Form College 242
St. Mary's Roman Catholic Sixth Form College 363
Sir William Turners Sixth Form College *
Cornwall St. Austell, Poltair Sixth Form College 305
Durham Queen Elizabeth College, Darlington 453
Essex South East Essex Sixth Form College 706
Grays, Palmers College 425
East Sussex Varndean Sixth Form College *
Brighton, Hove and Sussex *
Hampshire Basingstoke, Queen Mary's College 678
Brockenhurst College 707
Totton College 431
Winchester, Peter Symonds College 368
Eastleigh, Barton Peverell College 526
Itchen County College, Southampton 589
Richard Taunton College for Boys, Southampton 374
Southampton County College for Girls 548
Farnborough College 246
Fareham Prices College 389
Havant College 259
Harrow Lowlands Junior College 234
Harrow Weald Junior College 214
Pinner Junior College 186
Stanmore Junior College 386
Hereford and Worcester Hereford Sixth Form College 296
Humberside Scunthorpe, John Leggott College 653
Kirklees Wheelwright College 191
Greenhead College 235
Huddersfield New College 398
King James's College 125
Lancashire Leyland, Runshaw College 424
Leicestershire Rutland Sixth Form College 210
Nottinghamshire Billborough College 182
High Pavement College 165
Forest Fields College 221
Oxfordshire Henley Sixth Form College 312
Richmond upon Thames Thames Valley Sixth Form College 593
Shene Sixth Form College 439
Rotherham Thomas Rotherham College 376
Salford Salford, Pendleton College 380
Eccles College 460
Salop Wellington Sixth Form College 171
Sandwell West Park College 303
Rowley Regis College 149
Solihull Solihull Sixth Form College 702
Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College 785
Surrey Farnham College 442
Godalming Sixth Form College 448
Ashford *
Sunbury *
Egham Strodes *
Esher *

In January 1975, 560 maintained schools, including sixth form colleges, in England had sixth forms of more than 150 pupils. To identify and list all these schools would involve disproportionate expenditure.

Local Education Authority Name of College Numbers on Roil January 1975
Tyneside North Tynemouth Sixth Form College 424
Warwickshire Nuneaton, King Edward VI College 228
West Sussex Worthing Sixth Form College 407
Wigan Orrell, St. John Rigby Roman Catholic 444
North Yorkshire Scarborough, The Sixth Form College 455
* College came into operation in September 1975 and figures for current number on roll not yet available.

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