HC Deb 23 July 1987 vol 120 cc316-9W
Mr. Fatchett

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what are the average sizes in each of the local education authorities for primary and secondary classes for each of the past three years.

Mr. Dunn

The information requested for maintained primary and secondary schools for each local education authority in England for each of the past three years is given in the following table. The average class sizes relate to classes taught by one teacher on a selected period on the day of the census count in January of each year and may not, therefore, be representative of the pattern of classes over the academic year as a whole.

Primary Secondary
1984 1985 1986 1984 1985 1986
Newham 23.6 23.5 24.0 19.5 19.5 19.0
Redbridge 25.4 25.9 27.0 19.8 19.5 20.5
Richmond Upon Thames 23.6 24.7 24.6 21.3 21.6 20.9
Sutton 27.2 26.9 27.7 20.8 20.5 20.9
Waltham Forest 23.6 24.0 25.0 18.1 18.0 18.5
Birmingham 25.7 25.8 26.6 21.3 21.3 21.5
Coventry 25.2 25.6 25.6 21.5 20.8 20.7
Dudley 24.8 24.8 25.4 20.1 19.6 19.6
Sandwell 24.7 24.2 24.8 20.1 19.6 19.3
Solihull 25.5 25.7 26.0 21.4 20.9 20.8
Walsall 22.0 21.8 22.7 18.9 19.0 18.8
Wolverhampton 21.1 21.3 22.8 19.6 19.2 19.3
Knowsley 24.8 24.8 25.0 20.1 19.4 19.3
Liverpool 23.8 23.7 23.8 20.4 20.5 20.1
St. Helens 25.1 24.7 25.8 20.3 20.1 19.4
Sefton 25.4 25.9 26.5 20.6 20.8 20.9
Wirall 25.4 26.4 26.9 20.3 20.0 20.4
Bolton 26.5 26.6 27.6 21.0 20.6 20.2
Bury 25.0 24.7 25.7 20.3 19.6 20.2
Manchester 25.0 24.7 25.2 19.6 19.4 19.2
Oldham 25.5 25.5 27.0 21.3 20.7 20.4
Rochdale 24.9 25.3 26.6 19.2 19.6 19.6
Salford 23.8 24.0 24.4 19.8 19.4 19.7
Stockport 26.3 26.2 26.4 20.6 20.2 20.4
Tameside 25.9 25.6 26.6 19.7 20.2 19.7
Trafford 25.2 25.6 26.3 20.5 21.0 20.8
Wigan 24.6 24.8 25.5 20.3 20.1 19.9
Barnsley 23.8 23.8 24.5 20.6 20.4 19.9
Doncaster 23.2 23.7 24.6 20.8 21.2 21.1
Rotheram 24.6 24.5 24.6 20.7 20.7 20.3
Sheffield 23.0 22.8 23.8 20.4 20.0 19.9
Bradford 23.7 24.3 25.4 21.4 20.9 20.7
Calderdale 23.9 24.7 25.0 20.9 20.2 20.5
Kirklees 25.1 24.4 25.2 20.9 20.4 20.1
Leeds 25.3 25.2 25.5 20.7 20.4 20.3
Wakefield 24.6 24.4 25.2 21.1 20.9 20.4
Gateshead 21.6 21.6 22.7 19.6 19.7 19.8
Newcastle Upon Tyne 21.0 22.5 23.9 18.9 19.0 18.8
North Tyneside 20.7 21.1 20.6 18.3 18.4 18.1
South Tyneside 23.0 23.4 23.4 19.6 18.4 19.1
Sunderland 24.3 24.3 24.4 20.5 19.7 19.4
Inner London 20.4 20.6 21.8 18.3 18.4 18.6
Avon 26.9 27.3 28.0 20.8 21.1 21.1
Bedfordshire 25.5 25.3 25.5 21.4 21.2 21.7
Berkshire 25.8 25.8 26.6 20.1 20.0 19.9
Buckinghamshire 26.5 26.7 27.6 19.9 20.1 20.0
Cambridgeshire 26.1 25.9 26.4 20.9 21.2 20.9
Cheshire 25.6 25.8 26.4 20.7 20.9 21.2
Cleveland 24.5 24.5 25.4 20.3 20.5 20.3
Cornwall 25.6 25.4 25.7 21.0 20.8 20.6
Cumbria 23.0 23.2 23.8 19.5 19.8 19.4
Derbyshire 24.7 25.0 25.3 21.0 21.1 20.8
Devon 25.5 25.8 26.1 21.4 21.3 21.4
Dorset 26.1 26.5 26.6 21.1 21.1 20.9
Durham 24.9 25.1 25.7 21.2 21.1 20.8
East Sussex 24.6 25.8 26.3 21.1 20.6 21.0
Essex 26.5 26.6 27.1 21.1 21.3 21.1
Gloucestershire 25.5 25.7 26.1 20.9 20.5 20.7
Hampshire 26.9 27.1 26.9 21.3 21.4 21.1
Hereford and Worcester 26.8 25.9 25.9 21.2 21.0 20.9
Hertfordshire 25.0 24.9 25.6 19.4 19.5 19.6
Humberside 23.3 23.6 24.3 20.0 20.3 19.9
Isle of Wight 26.1 26.3 27.2 21.1 21.2 21.8
Kent 27.0 27.0 27.1 20.9 21.1 20.9
Lancashire 25.9 26.5 26.9 20.8 21.1 20.8
Leicestershire 24.2 24.7 25.4 20.5 20.7 20.5
Lincolnshire 26.0 26.5 27.0 20.4 21.0 20.9
Norfolk 24.3 24.0 24.8 20.6 20.7 20.5
North Yorkshire 23.9 24.2 24.6 20.3 20.8 20.9
Northamptonshire 24.3 24.5 25.2 20.3 20.1 20.0
Northumberland 25.4 25.4 25.1 21.2 21.1 20.7
Nottinghamshire 23.6 23.7 24.6 20.0 20.0 19.5
Oxfordshire 26.4 26.5 26.2 20.9 20.7 21.0
Salop 23.5 23.7 24.3 20.0 19.9 20.0
Somerset 26.6 27.2 27.1 22.0 22.2 21.9
Staffordshire 24.1 24.2 25.3 20.6 20.7 20.8

Primary Secondary
1984 1985 1986 1984 1985 1986
Suffolk 23.9 23.9 24.6 20.8 21.0 21.1
Surrey 25.1 25.0 25.2 19.7 20.2 19.9
Warwickshire 25.1 25.3 26.2 20.8 21.1 20.9
West Sussex 25.9 26.1 26.2 20.8 21.1 20.5
Wiltshire 25.8 25.8 25.6 20.8 21.1 21.4