§ Mr. Joseph Deanasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what are the pupil-teacher ratios for all classes of pupils in the six largest metropolitan districts.
§ Miss Margaret JacksonThe latest available information is for January 1977. The pupil-teacher ratios for the six metropolitan districts which are largest in terms of total population are given below:
Birmingham … … 19.8 Bradford … … 19.0 Leeds … … 20.8 Liverpool … … 19.2 Manchester … … 19.1 Sheffield … … 19.4 Note: An authority's pupil-teacher ratio is the ratio of all the pupils in its maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools to all 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.