HC Deb 03 August 1978 vol 955 cc477-9W
Mr. Maurice Macmillan

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will list in the Official Report the present level of pupil-teacher ratios in (a) primary schools, and (b) secondary schools for each local education authority, with the comparable figures for 1973.

Miss Margaret Jackson

Pupil-teacher ratios within schools for each local education authority in England and Wales for January 1977—the latest available information—were published in a press notice by my Department on 29th December 1977, a copy of which is in the Library.

Figures for January 1973 for these local education authorities given below have been calculated from the component parts of education authorities as they existed prior to the April 1974 local government reorganisation. Comparisons between these figures may be complicated by the development of a middle school system of changed arrangements for education of those above compulsory school leaving age.

Local Education Authority Primary* Secondary†
Barking 25.3 16.5
Barnet 25.6 16.3
Bexley 26.2 17.1
Brent 26.1 16.4
Bromley 27.6 17.0
Croydon 24.1 16.2
Ealing 25.2 17.0
Enfield 27.0 17.3
Haringey 25.6 16.7
Harrow 25.5 17.7
Havering 26.5 17.7
Hillingdon 24.6 16.9
Hounslow 24.3 16.6
Kingston-pon-hames 25.0 16.1
Merton 25.3 18.7
Newham 25.8 17.6
Redbridge 26.2 17.1
Richmond-pon-hames 25.2 15.3
Sutton 26.8 16.6
Waltham Forest 26.2 16.2
Inner London 22.1 15.4
Birmingham 26.0 16.5
Coventry 25.6 18.1
Dudley 27.8 16.9
Sandwell 27.7 17.0
Solihull 26.6 16.9
Walsall 26.3 16.4
Wolverhampton 24.6 16.0
Knowsley 24.8 16.9
Liverpool 25.2 17.9
St. Helens 26.6 16.9
Sefton 26.2 17.9
Wirral 26.4 17.4
Bolton 28.5 16.4
Bury 27.1 16.9
Manchester 25.6 15.7
Oldham 28.0 17.7
Rochdale 26.5 16.3
Salford 27.7 17.1
Stockport 28.4 17.1
Tameside 27.2 17.5
Trafford 26.6 16.9
Wigan 26.1 16.6
Barnsley 25.6 17.5

Local Education Authority primary* Secondary†
Doncaster 25.1 17.0
Rotherham 25.9 17.8
Sheffield 23.9 16.8
Bradford 23.9 17.4
Calderdale 24.8 17.2
Kirklees 25.1 17.7
Leeds 26.5 18.3
Wakefield 25.6 17.6
Gateshead 25.6 17.1
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 25.9 17.8
North Tyneside 25.1 17.3
South Tyneside 25.2 17.3
Sunderland 27.2 17.5
Isles of Scilly 17.1 10.0
Avon 25.7 16.8
Bedfordshire 23.3 16.9
Berkshire 25.6 17.2
Buckinghamshire 23.3 17.1
Cambridgeshire 25.0 17.0
Cheshire 26.3 17.1
Cleveland 26.1 17.4
Cornwall 26.9 17.2
Cumbria 24.8 16.3
Derbyshire 25.6 17.0
Devon 26.2 18.0
Dorset 25.9 17.6
Durham 24.5 17.1
East Sussex 25.7 17.4
Essex 28.5 18.1
Gloucestershire 25.2 18.0
Hampshire 25.4 16.7
Hereford and Worcester 26.4 18.0
Hertfordshire 24.0 15.7
Humberside 25.7 17.7
Isle of Wight 24.9 18.8
Kent 26.5 17.6
Lancashire 26.5 16.9
Leicestershire 26.0 17.4
Lincolnshire 25.1 16.9
Norfolk 24.4 17.9
North Yorkshire 24.2 17.4
Northamptonshire 26.8 17.1
Northumberland 25.0 18.1
Nottinghamshire 26.7 17.2
Oxfordshire 25.3 17.5
Salop 25.7 17.5
Somerset 26.2 17.8
Staffordshire 25.6 16.5
Suffolk 25.6 17.8
Surrey 23.9 16.4
Warwickshire 25.5 17.6
West Sussex 26.2 17.7
Wiltshire 25.5 17.5
Clwyd 24.9 17.8
Dyfed 20.7 18.0
Gwent 25.3 17.3
Gwynedd 21.7 17.0
Mid-Glamorgan 25.7 18.0
Powys 20.1 15.2
South Glamorgan 25.5 17.9
West Glamorgan 25.0 17.9
* Including immigrant centres and middle deemed primary schools.
†Including middle deemed secondary schools.