HC Deb 20 November 1984 vol 68 cc145-7W
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 1984, the pupil-teacher ratios within maintained primary and secondary schools together with the overall pupil-teacher ratio for all teachers employed by local education authorities in England were as follows:

Local education authority Primary Schools Secondary Schools Overall
Barking 21.7 15.8 17.5
Barnet 19.8 14.3 15.8
Bexley 24.5 16.7 18.7
Brent 18.3 12.8 14.0
Bromley 23.4 16.2 18.4
Croydon 22.1 15.7 17.4
Ealing 19.2 14.9 16.5
Enfield 22.8 15.4 17.3
Haringey 18.7 13.5 14.5
Harrow 20.9 14.1 16.6
Havering 22.9 15.7 17.5
Hillingdon 22.2 15.7 17.8
Hounslow 19.7 15.0 16.4
Kingston-upon-Thames 22.4 16.2 17.9
Merton 22.1 17.5 18.1
Newham 20.6 14.1 15.4
Redbridge 23.2 16.0 17.7
Richmond-upon-Thames 20.7 16.3 17.6

Local education authority Primary Schools Secondary Schools Overall
Sutton 24.8 17.1 19.0
Waltham Forest 20.9 13.7 15.3
ILEA 17.3 13.3 13.5
Birmingham 22.8 16.4 18.2
Coventry 22.1 15.9 17.3
Dudley 22.7 16.1 18.3
Sandwell 22.6 15.4 17.2
Solihull 23.0 16.8 18.9
Walsall 20.8 14.9 16.9
Wolverhampton 19.3 14.8 16.1
Knowsley 21.6 15.3 16.7
Liverpool 20.9 16.3 18.2
St. Helens 22.6 15.6 18.0
Sefton 22.6 16.4 18.3
Wirral 22.9 16.1 18.2
Bolton 23.8 16.0 18.5
Bury 22.8 15.6 17.7
Manchester 22.7 14.8 16.7
Oldham 23.1 17.0 18.2
Rochdale 22.4 15.0 16.6
Salford 21.5 15.5 17.0
Stockport 23.4 16.4 18.7
Tameside 23.6 15.9 18.3
Trafford 22.7 16.6 18.4
Wigan 21.4 15.3 16.9
Barnsley 21.1 16.3 17.4
Doncaster 20.7 16.2 17.6
Rotherham 22.0 16.7 18.4
Sheffield 20.2 15.6 17.0
Bradford 20.0 17.4 17.4
Calderdale 21.9 17.1 17.8
Kirklees 22.5 17.1 18.6
Leeds 22.6 16.4 17.6
Wakefield 21.8 17.3 18.5
Gateshead 18.8 16.1 16.6
Newcastle upon Tyne 18.4 14.2 15.3
North Tyneside 19.2 14.4 15.7
South Tyneside 20.2 14.9 16.5
Sunderland 21.9 16.2 18.1
Avon 23.9 16.4 18.6
Bedfordshire 23.3 17.5 18.9
Berkshire 23.0 16.2 18.0
Buckinghamshire 24.3 16.5 19.5
Cambridgeshire 23.6 16.8 19.4
Cheshire 22.7 16.9 18.6
Cleveland 22.1 16.2 17.9
Cornwall including Isles of Scilly 23.6 16.9 19.1
Cumbria 21.2 15.9 17.5
Derbyshire 22.2 16.9 18.6
Devon 23.6 16.9 18.8
Dorset 23.5 17.1 18.6
Durham 21.7 16.8 18.5
East Sussex 22.1 17.1 18.3
Essex 24.1 17.1 19.5
Gloucestershire 22.9 17.0 19.0
Hampshire 24.0 17.1 19.6
Hereford and Worcester 25.1 17.5 19.3
Hertfordshire 22.4 16.1 17.9
Humberside 20.9 16.2 17.5

Local education authority Primary Schools Secondary Schools Overall
Isle of Wight 23.6 18.0 18.6
Kent 23.9 17.1 19.3
Lancashire 23.2 16.4 18.4
Leicestershire 22.5 16.0 17.8
Lincolnshire 24.1 17.0 18.9
Norfolk 22.3 16.6 18.8
North Yorkshire 21.8 16.4 18.0
Northamptonshire 22.1 16.5 18.0
Northumberland 23.3 17.4 19.2
Nottinghamshire 21.1 15.8 17.8
Oxfordshire 23.9 17.2 18.3
Salop 21.6 16.2 17.6
Somerset 23.8 17.6 19.4
Staffordshire 22.3 16.3 17.8
Suffolk 22.1 16.9 18.3
Surrey 22.5 16.4 18.8
Warwickshire 22.5 17.1 19.3
West Sussex 23.3 17.0 19.1
Wiltshire 23.5 17.0 19.0
ENGLAND 22.1 16.2 17.9