Mr. R. C. Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what are the pupil-teacher ratios for all classes of pupils in the non-metropolitan counties.
§ Miss Margaret JacksonThe latest available information is for January 1977. The pupil-teacher ratios for the non-metropolitan counties of England are given below:
Avon 20.1 Bedfordshire 18.5 Berkshire 20.3 Buckinghamshire 20.6 Cambridgeshire 19.6 Cheshire 20.7 Cleveland 20.9 Cornwall 20.8 Cumbria 19.6 Derbyshire 21.0 Devon 21.1 Dorset 20.1 Durham 19.2 East Sussex 20.2 Essex 21.5 Gloucestershire 20.4 Hampshire 20.6 Hereford and Worcester 20.4 Hertfordshire 19.1 Humberside 19.2 Isles of Scilly 14.0 Isle of Wight 20.5 Kent 21.2 Lancashire 20.6 Leicestershire 20.0 Lincolnshire 21.1 Norfolk 20.4 North Yorkshire 19.8 Northamptonshire 20.2 Northumberland 19.3 Nottinghamshire 20.4 Oxfordshire 19.6 Salop 20.5 Somerset 21.4 Staffordshire 20.4 Suffolk 20.3 Surrey 19.4 Warwickshire 21.0 West Sussex 21.2 Wiltshire 20.6 Note: An authority's pupil-teacher ratio is the ratio of all the pupils in its maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools to all 298W the teachers employed by it. Since some teachers divide their service between different types of school and some are out of schools for extended periods—for example, on in-service training courses—the pupil-teacher ratio does not measure effective staffing standards in schools.