HC Deb 10 December 1987 vol 124 c222W
Miss Mowlam

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will give the total number of pupils on school rolls and the pupil-to-teacher ratio in primary schools in Cleveland for each year since 1979.

Mr. Dunn

The number of pupils on roll and the pupil-teacher ratio in maintained primary schools in Cleveland each year since 1979 were as follows:

January each year Pupils1 Pupil-teacher ratio
1979 65,386 23.4
1980 62,770 23.1
1981 60,446 23.1
1982 57,321 22.4
1983 54,395 21.8
1984 53,505 22.1
1985 53,106 22.2
1986 53,270 22.3
1987 53,755 22.1
1 Full-time equivalent pupils. Part-time pupils counted as 0.5.