HC Deb 19 July 1995 vol 263 cc1337-9W
Mr. Bayley

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what is the average class size in(a) city technology colleges, (b) grant-maintained secondary schools, (c) local education authority grammar schools, (d) local education authority secondary modern schools and (e) local education authority comprehensive secondary schools.

Mr. Robin Squire

Information for January 1994 for the average size of one teacher classes in the various categories of secondary school is as follows:

School type Average class size
LEA maintained schools:
Grammar 19.9
Modern 21.5
Comprehensive 21.4
Grant Maintained Secondary Schools 20.9
City Technology Colleges 19.1

Mr. Bayley

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what is the average class size in(a) grant maintained and (b) local education authority primary schools.

Mr. Robin Squire

In January 1994 the average size of one teacher classes in both grant maintained and local education authority maintained primary schools was 26.9.

Mr. Bayley

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what is the average class size in(a) primary and (b) secondary schools in each local education authority in England.

Mr. Squire

The average size of one teacher classes in maintained—including GM—primary and secondary for each LEA in England for January 1994 is given in the table.

LEA Primary Secondary
City 27.0 0.0
Camden 27.1 20.4
Greenwich 26.1 21.9
Hackney 25.7 21.9
Hammersmith 25.2 21.0
Islington 25.9 23.1
Kensington and Chelsea 24.9 19.1
Lambeth 24.2 21.6
Lewisham 26.0 22.6
Southwark 26.9 24.3
Tower Hamlets 26.4 22.4
Wandsworth 25.0 21.2
Westminster 24.0 20.8
Barking 26.1 21.8
Barnet 26.4 19.8
Bexley 27.5 22.0
Brent 27.0 20.9
Bromley 28.1 21.1
Croydon 27.6 21.9
Ealing 26.6 22.2
Enfield 27.8 21.2
Haringey 26.7 21.2
Harrow 26.8 23.4
Havering 27.5 22.2
Hillingdon 27.1 21.0
Hounslow 26.2 21.3
Kingston upon Thames 28.9 20.5
Merton 27.2 22.0
Newham 27.5 24.5
Redbridge 29.3 20.9
Richmond upon Thames 25.7 23.3
Sutton 28.3 21.4
Waltham Forest 26.8 22.5
Birmingham 28.2 22.1
Coventry 27.1 22.9
Dudley 27.0 22.7
Sandwell 27.9 21.2
Solihull 27.3 21.8
Walsall 25.7 20.6
Wolverhampton 25.9 20.5
Knowsley 27.7 22.1
Liverpool 26.9 20.4
St. Helens 26.8 19.7
Sefton 27.2 20.9
Wirral 25.9 20.9
Bolton 28.1 21.1
Bury 27.5 22.7
Manchester 26.5 22.4
Oldham 28.6 22.5
Rochdale 29.5 22.8
Salford 27.1 22.3
Stockport 27.7 21.6
Tameside 29.6 23.7
Trafford 29.0 21.6
LEA Primary Secondary
Wigan 27.9 21.4
Barnsley 27.4 22.9
Doncaster 27.5 21.1
Rotherham 25.1 20.5
Sheffield 26.3 22.4
Bradford 27.3 22.5
Calderdale 27.9 20.2
Kirklees 27.2 21.4
Leeds 27.9 20.5
Wakefield 27.5 21.8
Gateshead 25.8 20.7
Newcastle upon Tyne 27.3 21.5
North Tyneside 26.5 21.9
South Tyneside 26.3 22.5
Sunderland 25.6 20.9
Isle of Scilly 18.7 24.0
Avon 27.7 21.2
Bedfordshire 26.3 22.0
Berkshire 27.1 20.1
Buckinghamshire 27.2 21.1
Cambridgeshire 27.4 22.3
Cheshire 27.4 21.1
Cleveland 26.8 22.1
Cornwall 26.8 22.2
Cumbria 25.7 20.6
Derbyshire 27.3 21.4
Devon 26.4 21.1
Dorset 27.5 21.9
Durham 27.5 21.6
East Sussex 27.4 21.0
Essex 26.9 21.9
Gloucestershire 26.4 21.5
Hampshire 27.4 22.2
Hereford and Worcester 25.1 21.7
Hertfordshire 26.4 20.1
Humberside 27.5 22.6
Isle of Wight 26.0 22.2
Kent 27.6 20.9
Lancashire 27.7 21.4
Leicestershire 25.8 21.5
Lincolnshire 26.5 19.9
Norfolk 25.1 20.2
North Yorkshire 25.7 20.8
Northamptonshire 26.4 20.6
Northumberland 27.0 22.0
Nottinghamshire 27.0 20.5
Oxfordshire 25.6 21.0
Shropshire 26.4 21.1
Somerset 26.9 22.1
Staffordshire 27.7 22.1
Suffolk 24.8 20.7
Surrey 25.5 21.6
Warwickshire 26.5 20.3
West Sussex 26.2 21.6
Wiltshire 26.6 21.3
England 26.9 21.4