HC Deb 11 January 1989 vol 144 cc680-3W
Mr. Harry Barnes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will publish a table in theOfficial Report showing staff-to-pupil ratios in each local education authority area in England for each category of school.

Mr. Butcher

The pupil-teacher ratio in each category of maintained school in each local education authority in England in January 1988 is given in the following table.

Pupil/teacher ratios in schools January 1988
Local education authority Nursery PTR Primary PTR Secondary PTR Special PTR
Barking — 20.9 14.7 5.1
Barnet 17.3 20.1 14.2 5.4
Bexley 19.7 22.4 16.0 7.3
Brent 16.1 18.5 11.1 3.5
Bromley — 23.0 15.8 5.8
Croydon 20.7 21.8 15.1 5.6
Ealing 16.1 19.3 13.9 5.7
Enfield — 21.7 15.1 6.0
Haringey 13.1 19.0 11.9 4.5
Harrow — 21.8 15.6 6.2
Havering — 22.6 15.1 6.6
Hillingdon 24.1 22.0 15.6 7.0
Hounslow — 20.1 14.9 5.3
Kingston upon Thames 16.8 21.5 14.2 7.5
Merton — 21.6 15.9 5.2
Newham 18.7 21.5 14.0 5.1
Redbridge — 24.0 16.1 5.9
Richmond upon Thames 15.8 20.9 15.5 5.8
Sutton 20.0 22.7 16.5 6.0
Waltham Forest 19.2 21.2 11.8 3.4
Inner London 16.1 17.6 13.1 5.7
Birmingham 23.3 23.2 16.0 6.7
Coventry 28.1 22.5 14.4 5.9
Dudley 31.5 22.7 14.0 7.8
Sandwell 20.3 22.4 14.0 6.7
Solihull — 23.1 15.5 5.4
Walsall 30.1 20.8 13.9 5.6
Wolverhampton 21.1 20.1 13.8 5.8
Knowsley — 20.7 13.4 6.2
Liverpool 18.7 21.0 14.4 7.1
St. Helens 19.5 22.3 14.0 7.6
Sefton 17.7 23.2 16.1 7.6
Wirral 16.2 21.6 15.7 7.3
Bolton 20.0 22.9 15.1 5.5
Bury 22.4 22.4 15.0 5.8
Manchester 13.5 21.4 12.9 5.7
Oldham — 22.5 15.5 5.7
Rochdale 20.6 22.3 14.1 6.0
Salford 21.1 21.7 13.8 6.8
Stockport 25.4 23.3 15.0 6.5
Tameside 13.9 23.5 15.5 5.9
Trafford — 21.9 14.8 7.2
Wigan 18.0 21.2 13.6 6.2
Barnsley 30.2 21.6 15.2 6.3
Doncaster — 21.5 15.4 8.3
Rotherham 20.7 21.2 15.3 6.8
Sheffield 16.0 19.9 14.0 4.2
Bradford 15.8 19.8 15.2 4.5
Calderdale 20.5 22.9 15.5 6.4
Kirklees 16.2 20.9 15.0 6.9
Leeds 16.8 20.0 14.7 6.2
Wakefield 16.7 21.8 15.2 6.5
Gateshead 16.0 20.7 14.6 6.7
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 15.4 19.7 13.8 4.9
North Tyneside 22.2 18.6 12.9 6.5
South Tyneside 18.7 20.6 14.3 7.1
Sunderland 19.2 22.1 15.1 6.5
Isles of Scilly — 13.1 9.2 —
Avon 19.7 23.8 16.4 6.1
Bedfordshire 18.1 22.0 16.8 6.5
Berkshire 17.8 23.4 16.0 6.7
Buckinghamshire 23.3 24.0 16.2 7.4
Cambridgeshire 19.7 23.4 16.2 6.1

Local education authority Nursery PTR Primary PTR Secondary PTR Special PTR
Cheshire 21.7 23.6 16.2 6.8
Cleveland 19.1 22.3 15.1 6.1
Cornwall 22.7 23.4 16.3 7.4
Cumbria 18.7 21.7 14.9 5.8
Derbyshire 19.0 21.2 14.4 5.2
Devon 24.9 23.3 16.6 7.7
Dorset — 23.3 16.3 8.0
Durham 20.8 22.0 16.0 7.1
East Sussex 21.5 22.7 16.2 7.3
Essex 18.8 22.7 16.6 6.6
Gloucestershire — 22.6 16.0 7.0
Hampshire 21.5 22.5 16.2 8.3
Hereford and Worcester — 23.7 16.6 7.3
Hertfordshire 20.4 21.7 15.4 5.4
Humberside 24.1 22.2 15.0 6.7
Isle of Wight — 23.5 16.5 8.0
Kent 15.5 24.0 16.4 8.3
Lancashire 20.1 23.3 15.6 6.5
Leicestershire 22.9 22.9 15.0 6.1
Lincolnshire 22.2 23.9 16.6 7.8
Norfolk 21.3 22.6 15.9 7.5
North Yorkshire 20.3 22.0 15.9 7.0
Northamptonshire 19.9 22.9 16.1 5.8
Northumberland 29.3 22.8 16.1 6.3
Nottinghamshire 15.1 21.1 14.8 7.0
Oxfordshire 21.8 23.0 16.6 5.8
Shropshire 15.8 21.4 15.3 7.3
Somerset — 23.1 16.3 7.2
Staffordshire 29.0 23.2 16.3 6.7
Suffolk 25.4 22.5 16.7 6.5
Surrey 15.4 21.4 15.4 7.1
Warwickshire 21.0 21.9 16.0 7.4
West Sussex 24.5 22.9 16.7 8.0
Wiltshire — 22.6 16.3 6.7
England 19.4 22.0 15.4 6.4