HC Deb 18 January 1995 vol 252 cc513-5W
Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education what was the pupil-to-teacher ratio as at January 1994 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 for maintained primary and secondary schools and overall in each local education authority in England—January 1994
Pupil:teacher ratio within schools
LEA Primary(including grant-maintained)1 Secondary(including grant-maintained)1 Over all pupil:teacher ratio2
Corporation of London 15.0 N/A 14.3
Camden 20.5 15.3 16.2
Greenwich 21.0 16.4 17.3
Hackney 19.9 14.6 16.3
Hammersmith and Fulham 18.9 15.2 15.6
Islington 20.3 15.4 14.0
Kensington and Chelsea 17.7 12.5 14.5
Lambeth 19.1 14.8 15.8
Lewisham 21.5 16.2 17.0
Southwark 22.4 17.0 18.0
Tower Hamlets 18.0 14.2 14.6
Wandsworth 19.8 14.7 15.9
Westminster 17.6 15.5 14.2
Barking and Dagenham 22.1 17.1 18.2
Barnet 21.0 15.0 16.2
Bexley 23.5 16.5 18.7
Brent 22.0 15.9 17.6
Bromley 24.4 16.2 18.1
Croydon 21.8 16.9 17.9
Ealing 21.3 16.3 18.2
Enfield 22.5 16.6 18.0
Haringey 20.4 13.9 16.4
Harrow 20.5 15.7 17.3
Havering 23.1 16.5 18.0
Hillingdon 22.1 16.4 18.3
Hounslow 21.1 16.2 17.5
Kingston upon Thames 23.5 16.0 16.9
Merton 20.2 16.1 17.2
Newham 24.3 17.1 20.0
Redbridge 22.9 16.6 17.9
Richmond upon Thames 20.6 16.9 17.3
Sutton 24.4 16.9 18.7
Waltham Forest 21.9 15.9 17.9
Birmingham 23.3 16.3 18.1
Coventry 22.7 15.8 17.5

Pupil:teacher ratios for maintained primary and secondary schools and overall in each local education authority in England—January 1994
Pupil:teacher ratio within schools
LEA Primary(including grant-maintained)1 Secondary(including grant maintained)1 Overall pupil:reacher ratio2
Dudley 22.5 16.7 18.3
Sandwell 22.5 15.9 17.2
Solihull 23.3 16.4 17.8
Walsall 22.4 15.8 17.5
Wolverhampton 21.3 15.4 16.6
Knowsley 23.5 16.9 19.7
Liverpool 23.4 15.9 19.1
St. Helens 22.0 15.3 17.5
Sefton 23.2 16.4 18.3
Wirral 22.6 16.3 18.0
Bolton 22.0 16.1 17.9
Bury 23.4 17.1 19.4
Manchester 22.3 15.7 18.6
Oldham 22.9 15.6 18.2
Rochdale 24.3 16.9 19.3
Salford 23.7 16.6 19.5
Stockport 23.6 16.4 19.2
Tameside 24.9 17.4 20.0
Trafford 24.4 16.2 19.4
Wigan 22.9 15.8 17.8
Barnsley 24.2 17.1 19.1
Doncaster 23.5 16.3 18.2
Rotherham 21.3 15.8 17.5
Sheffield 22.4 16.5 18.3
Bradford 21.3 17.3 16.6
Calderdale 23.7 16.3 17.9
Kirklees 22.1 15.8 17.7
Leeds 23.4 16.0 18.6
Wakefield 23.1 16.3 18.6
Gateshead 21.6 15.7 16.6
Newcastle upon Tyne 22.9 16.5 18.5
North Tyneside 23.1 17.0 18.1
South Tyneside 23.2 17.0 18.6
Sunderland 22.1 16.1 17.8
Isles of Scilly 14.0 8.8 10.7
Avon 23.1 16.2 18.0
Bedfordshire 22.0 17.2 18.1
Berkshire 22.9 16.0 17.6
Buckinghamshire 23.0 16.8 18.6
Cambridgeshire 23.3 17.1 18.1
Cheshire 23.9 16.8 19.1
Cleveland 23.8 17.0 18.5
Cornwall 23.3 17.3 19.1
Cumbria 22.5 16.0 18.0
Derbyshire 23.3 15.7 17.7
Devon 22.9 16.4 18.8
Dorset 23.4 17.2 19.6
Durham 22.9 16.6 18.2
East Sussex 22.3 16.1 17.7
Essex 22.8 17.1 18.8
Gloucestershire 22.5 17.7 18.4
Hampshire 22.4 16.4 18.8
Hereford and Worcester 22.2 17.3 18.3
Hertfordshire 22.2 15.7 17.7
Humberside 24.3 17.5 19.2
Isle of Wight 22.3 17.6 17.4
Kent 23.9 16.7 18.7
Lancashire 23.0 16.1 17.8
Leicestershire 22.5 16.4 17.7
Lincolnshire 23.3 15.8 17.9
Norfolk 21.9 15.7 17.7
North Yorkshire 22.9 16.0 17.4
Northamptonshire 22.6 16.6 17.7
Northumberland 24.3 18.1 18.8
Nottinghamshire 22.9 15.8 18.0
Oxfordshire 21.5 16.8 17.4
Shropshire 23.1 16.1 18.0
Somerset 22.6 16.6 17.6
Staffordshire 25.1 17.5 19.7
Suffolk 21.6 16.2 16.9

Pupil: teacher ratios for maintained primary and secondary schools and overall in each local education authority in England—January 1994
Pupil:teacher ratio within schools
LEA Primary(including grant-maintained)1 Secondary(including grant-maintained)1 Overall pupil: teacher ratio2
Surrey 21.8 16.8 18.9
Warwickshire 22.1 16.1 17.7
West Sussex 22.0 16.5 17.9
Wiltshire 22.9 16.7 17.9
England 22.7 16.4 18.13
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 The overall pupil:teacher ratio is measured across the three maintained school types—nursery, primary and secondary. The figures include all qualified teachers (including those not in schools and teachers providing short term cover), student teachers, instructors and licensed teachers employed by local education authorities.
3 Includes an estimate of the full-time equivalent of teachers employed by Northamptonshire LEA.