HC Deb 18 January 1994 vol 235 cc542-4W
Mr. Byers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education what was the pupil to teacher ratio as at January 1993 for each local education authority in(a) the primary sector, (b) the secondary sector and (c) overall.

Mr. Robin Squire

The information requested is shown in the table.

Pupil teacher ratios in maintained primary and secondary schools and overall in each local education authority in England
Primary (including self-governing (GM) schools) (1) Secondary (including self-governing (GM) schools (1) Overall maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools (2)
Corporation of London 15.2 n/a 13.9
Camden 20.8 15.6 16.4
Greenwich 20.4 16.7 16.6
Hackney 19.9 14.6 15.1
Primary (including self-governing (CM) schools) (1) Secondary (including self-governing (GM) schools (1) Overall maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools (2)
Hammersmith and Fulham 19.8 15.1 14.4
Islington 19.8 15.0 14.1
Kensington and Chelsea 17.6 13.3 14.5
Lambeth 19.4 15.5 15.9
Lewisham 21.1 16.5 17.2
Southwark 21.6 16.9 17.3
Tower Hamlets 17.8 14.0 14.2
Wandsworth 19.9 14.7 15.0
Westminster 17.2 14.5 13.7
Barking and Dagenham 22.1 17.0 18.0
Barnet 21.1 15.0 16.1
Beley 23.4 16.7 18.5
Brent 21.6 15.3 16.6
Bromley 23.3 16.3 17.8
Croydon 21.5 16.0 17.5
Ealing 20.7 15.3 17.5
Enfield 21.3 16.3 17.1
Haringey 20.8 14.5 17.1
Harrow 21.3 15.7 17.1
Havering 22.8 16.4 17.4
Hillingdon 22.0 15.8 17.5
Hounslow 20.5 16.4 17.2
Kingston upon Thames 22.5 15.8 16.5
Merton 19.6 15.5 16.5
Newham 24.1 16.6 19.1
Redbridge 23.0 17.2 18.0
Richmond upon Thames 20.3 16.5 16.8
Sutton 23.4 16.8 18.3
Waltham Forest 22.2 15.2 16.5
Birmingham 23.6 16.3 18.0
Coventry 22.3 15.1 17.2
Dudley 20.9 15.3 16.8
Sandwell 22.0 15.5 16.4
Solihull 23.1 16.1 18.0
Walsall 22.6 16.0 17.7
Wolverhampton 21.0 14.9 16.1
Knowsley 23.0 16.5 19.5
Liverpool 23.5 15.7 18.6
St. Helens 22.2 15.2 17.4
Sefton 23.2 16.3 18.0
Wirral 22.3 15.9 17.5
Bolton 22.0 15.1 17.1
Bury 22.9 16.5 18.5
Manchester 21.9 14.6 17.2
Oldham 22.9 15.0 17.8
Rochdale 24.1 16.3 18.1
Salford 23.4 15.5 17.9
Stockport 23.5 15.8 18.3
Tameside 24.0 16.3 17.8
Trafford 23.9 15.9 18.9
Wigan 22.3 15.2 16.0
Barnsley 23.9 17.0 19.1
Doncaster 22.8 16.0 17.8
Rotherham 21.3 15.2 17.9
Sheffield 22.5 16.1 17.6
Bradford 20.7 17.1 16.7
Calderdale 23.3 16.0 17.5
Kirklees 21.3 15.6 16.7
Leeds 22.0 16.0 17.5
Wakefield 22.6 15.9 17.7
Gateshead 21.2 15.6 17.0
Newcastle upon Tyne 22.4 15.7 17.3
North Tyneside 22.3 16.0 17.2
South Tyneside 22.6 17.1 18.3
Sunderland 22.1 15.9 18.0
Isles of Scilly 14.9 7.4 10.1
Avon 22.7 16.2 17.4
Bedfordshire 21.7 17.1 17.1
Berkshire 22.8 16.0 17.3
Buckinghamshire 22.8 16.6 18.3
Cambridgeshire 23.0 16.5 17.6
Cheshire 23.9 16.6 18.8
Primary (including self.governing (GM) schools) (1) Secondary (including self.governing (GM) schools (1) Overall maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools (2)
Cleveland 23.5 15.7 18.1
Cornwall 23.4 1.68 18.7
Cumbria 22.3 15.3 17.3
Derbyshire 22.9 15.4 16.9
Devon 22.8 16.1 18.8
Dorset 23.2 17.0 18.9
Durham 22.7 16.3 17.5
East Sussex 22.3 15.9 17.2
Essex 23.1 16.9 18.3
Gloucestershire 21.9 17.1 18.5
Hampshire 21.9 16.1 17.9
Hereford and Worcester 21.8 16.8 17.6
Hertfordshire 22.1 15.7 17.7
Humberside 23.1 16.3 18.0
Isle of Wight 22.1 17.1 17.5
Kent 23.9 17.0 18.7
Lancashire 22.8 15.9 17.7
Leicestershire 22.5 15.8 18.4
Lincolnshire 23.1 15.8 17.7
Norfolk 21.8 15.6 17.6
North Yorkshire 22.6 15.7 17.0
Northamptonshire 22.6 16.6 17.1
Northumberland 23.8 17.8 18.4
Nottinghamshire 22.6 15.7 17.5
Oxfordshire 21.6 16.7 17.4
Shropshire 22.0 15.3 17.2
Somerset 22.5 16.3 17.6
Staffordshire 24.7 16.9 19.2
Suffolk 21.4 16.1 16.9
Surrey 21.7 15.8 17.9
Warwickshire 22.3 16.2 17.7
West Sussex 22.1 16.4 17.5
Wiltshire 22.6 16.3 17.5
England 22.4 16.1 17.7

Note:

1. Excluding all unqualified teachers and teachers providing short-term cover as well as teachers absent for a term or more but including the latter's qualified replacements, if any.

2. Including qualified teachers (including those not in schools and teachers providing short-term cover), student teachers, instructors and licensed teachers employed by local education authorities and self-governing (GM) schools.