HC Deb 22 February 1988 vol 128 cc10-1W
Mr. Goodlad

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many pupils have been enrolled at each primary and secondary school in the Eddisbury constituency in each of the past 10 years; and what has been the pupil-to-teacher ratio in each year.

Mr. Dunn

Information on pupil numbers for areas smaller than local education authorities is not available centrally. The number of pupils on roll in all maintained primary and secondary schools in Cheshire and the pupil-teacher ratios within these schools in each of the last 10 years is given in the table.

Primary schools1 Secondary schools1
January each year Pupils2 Pupil-teacher ratio Pupils Pupil-teacher ratio
1978 100,846 24.0 77,542 17.4
1979 97,858 23.5 78,945 16.9
1980 94,592 23.5 79,671 16.7
1981 90,753 23.6 79,567 16.7
1982 86,454 23.3 79,306 17.1
1983 81,917 22.6 78,796 16.8
1984 79,127 22.7 77,481 16.9
1985 77,396 22.8 76,201 17.0
1986 77,227 22.7 73,816 17.0
1987 80,957 23.2 70,861 16.7
1 Includes middle schools as deemed.
2 Full-time equivalent pupils, part-time pupils counted as 0.5.