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Mr. Alan Howarth
Information on average class sizes for nursery schools is not available centrally. The average class size for maintained primary and secondary schools in each local education authority in England in January 1989 is given in the table. Class sizes relate to those taught by one teacher during a selected period on the day of the census count in January. They do not necessarily represent the pattern of classes over the academic year as a whole.
| Average class sizes in maintained Primary and Secondary schools January 1989 |
|
Average class size |
|
Primary |
Secondary |
| Barking |
24.3 |
18.7 |
| Barnet |
24.2 |
18.6 |
| Bexley |
25.4 |
20.3 |
| Brent |
25.1 |
19.0 |
| Bromley |
25.9 |
19.6 |
| Croydon |
25.5 |
20.3 |
| Ealing |
23.9 |
18.1 |
| Enfield |
26.3 |
19.5 |
| Haringey |
24.3 |
18.4 |
| Harrow |
26.8 |
21.5 |
| Havering |
26.1 |
19.4 |
| Hillingdon |
25.3 |
19.7 |
| Hounslow |
24.8 |
19.2 |
| Kingston upon Thames |
26.7 |
18.1 |
| Merton |
26.2 |
20.1 |
| Newham |
25.5 |
20.5 |
| Redbridge |
28.6 |
19.9 |
| Richmond upon Thames |
25.1 |
20.6 |
| Sutton |
26.3 |
20.0 |
| Waltham Forest |
26.4 |
17.9 |
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|
Average class size |
|
Primary |
Secondary |
| Inner London |
23.5 |
20.2 |
| Birmingham |
27.4 |
21.4 |
| Coventry |
26.1 |
20.7 |
| Dudley |
25.9 |
19.1 |
| Sandwell |
26.1 |
18.6 |
| Solihull |
26.3 |
20.3 |
| Walsall |
24.2 |
18.3 |
| Wolverhampton |
22.9 |
19.0 |
| Knowsley |
25.3 |
19.1 |
| Liverpool |
24.4 |
19.0 |
| St. Helens |
26.2 |
18.4 |
| Sefton |
26.3 |
20.5 |
| Wirral |
24.5 |
19.9 |
| Bolton |
26.6 |
19.4 |
| Bury |
25.8 |
19.8 |
| Manchester |
25.5 |
18.8 |
| Oldham |
26.9 |
19.6 |
| Rochdale |
26.8 |
18.5 |
| Salford |
25.2 |
18.4 |
| Stockport |
26.3 |
19.4 |
| Tameside |
26.7 |
20.3 |
| TrafFord |
26.4 |
19.0 |
| Wigan |
26.3 |
18.7 |
| Barnsley |
25.5 |
19.9 |
| Doncaster |
24.9 |
20.1 |
| Rotherham |
24.5 |
19.0 |
| Sheffield |
24.6 |
19.3 |
| Bradford |
25.0 |
20.7 |
| Calderdale |
26.7 |
19.6 |
| Kirklees |
25.7 |
19.4 |
| Leeds |
25.5 |
19.3 |
| Wakefield |
26.2 |
19.5 |
| Gateshead |
23.7 |
18.7 |
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
25.7 |
19.1 |
| North Tyneside |
23.2 |
18.5 |
| South Tyneside |
23.6 |
17.9 |
| Sunderland |
24.8 |
19.6 |
| Isles of Scilly |
14.0 |
12.2 |
| Avon |
27.2 |
20.6 |
| Bedfordshire |
25.8 |
20.9 |
| Berkshire |
26.5 |
19.3 |
| Buckinghamshire |
27.7 |
20.4 |
| Cambridgeshire |
26.7 |
20.4 |
| Cheshire |
27.7 |
19.9 |
| Cleveland |
25.5 |
18.9 |
| Cornwall |
26.1 |
20.2 |
| Cumbria |
24.4 |
19.0 |
| Derbyshire |
25.4 |
19.5 |
| Devon |
26.0 |
21.3 |
| Dorset |
26.8 |
20.8 |
| Durham |
26.0 |
20.1 |
| East Sussex |
25.9 |
20.2 |
| Essex |
26.0 |
20.8 |
| Gloucestershire |
25.7 |
19.7 |
| Hampshire |
26.0 |
20.4 |
| Hereford and Worcester |
25.7 |
20.1 |
| Hertfordshire |
25.0 |
19.0 |
| Humberside |
25.5 |
20.0 |
| Lancashire |
27.2 |
20.0 |
| Leicestershire |
25.5 |
19.8 |
| Lincolnshire |
25.9 |
20.2 |
| Norfolk |
24.9 |
19.6 |
| North Yorkshire |
24.6 |
19.7 |
| Northamptonshire |
26.2 |
20.1 |
| Northumberland |
25.3 |
20.3 |
| Nottinghamshire |
25.3 |
19.1 |
| Oxfordshire |
26.0 |
20.7 |
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|
Average class size |
|
Primary |
Secondary |
| Shropshire |
24.6 |
19.3 |
| Somerset |
26.3 |
21.0 |
| Staffordshire |
25.5 |
20.4 |
| Suffolk |
24.8 |
21.0 |
| Surrey |
24.5 |
19.0 |
| Warwickshire |
25.5 |
19.5 |
| West Sussex |
25.9 |
20.6 |
| Wiltshire |
25.5 |
20.2 |
| England |
25.7 |
19.9 |