HC Deb 27 October 1983 vol 47 cc157-9W
Mr. Peter Bruinvels

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what are the latest pupil to teacher ratios for each local education authority in England.

Mr. Dunn

In January 1983 the provisional pupil-teacher ratios within maintained primary and secondary schools were as follows:

Local Education Authority Primary Schools Secondary Schools
Barking 21.6 15.9
Barnet 20.2 14.6

Local Education Authority Primary Schools Secondary Schools
Bexley 24.3 16.8
Brent 18.4 13.5
Bromley 23.4 16.4
Croydon 22.0 15.8
Ealing 19.0 15.1
Enfield 22.4 15.8
Haringey 19.0 14.1
Harrow 20.8 14.6
Havering 22.9 15.7
Hillingdon 22.6 16.1
Hounslow 20.1 15.5
Kingston-upon-Thames 22.4 16.4
Merton 22.4 17.5
Newham 21.1 15.1
Redbridge 23.5 16.2
Richmond-upon-Thames 21.1 16.5
Sutton 24.7 17.1
Waltham Forest 21.1 14.0
Inner London 17.4 13.8
Birmingham 24.0 17.4
Coventry 22.3 16.6
Dudley 23.2 16.5
Sandwell 22.7 15.7
Solihull 23.0 16.9
Walsall 20.8 15.0
Wolverhampton 19.3 15.2
Knowsley 22.1 15.8
Liverpool 20.7 16.6
St. Helens 23.1 15.8
Sefton 22.2 16.7
Wirral 23.1 16.2
Bolton 24.0 16.2
Bury 23.0 15.8
Manchester 22.6 15.4
Oldham 23.6 17.4
Rochdale 22.4 15.0
Salford 21.5 15.7
Stockport 23.5 16.4
Tameside 23.2 16.2
Trafford 23.0 16.5
Wigan 21.3 15.3
Barnsley 21.5 16.7
Doncaster 21.3 16.3
Rotherham 22.7 170
Sheffield 20.7 15.9
Bradford 20.3 18.2
Calderdale 21.7 17.2
Kirklees 22.1 17.3
Leeds 23.0 16.8
Wakefield 22.9 17.8
Gateshead 19.3 16.7
Newcastle upon Tyne 18.2 14.3
North Tyneside 201 15.0
South Tyneside 19.9 15.4
Sunderland 22.3 16.3
Isles of Scilly 14.2 11.5
Avon 23.9 16.7
Bedfordshire 22.9 17.6
Berkshire 22.9 16.4
Buckinghamshire 24.1 16.4
Cambridgeshire 23.6 16.8
Cheshire 22.6 16.8
Cleveland 21.8 16.4
Cornwall 23.6 16.9
Cumbria 21.5 16.2
Derbyshire 22.3 17.2
Devon 23.3 17.0
Dorset 23.4 17.1
Durham 21.7 17.0
East Sussex 22.0 17.3
Essex 24.1 17.3
Gloucestershire 23.0 17.1
Hampshire 24.0 17.0

Local Education Authority Primary Schools Secondary Schools
Hereford and Worcester 25.0 18.0
Hertfordshire 22.4 16.2
Humberside 20.9 16.3
Isle of Wight 23.0 18.1
Kent 23.9 17.3
Lancashire 23.8 16.6
Leicestershire 22.8 16.3
Lincolnshire 24.8 17.1
Norfolk 22.2 16.7
North Yorkshire 22.0 16.7
Northamptonshire 22.3 16.7
Northumberland 23.0 17.6
Nottinghamshire 21.6 16.2
Oxfordshire 24.2 17.4
Shropshire 21.9 16.3
Somerset 24.6 18.3
Staffordshire 22.0 16.4
Suffolk 22.2 17.2
Surrey 22.1 16.4
Warwickshire 22.4 17.1
West Sussex 23.3 17.2
Wiltshire 23.7 17.2
England 22.3 16.5