Class Sizes

HC Deb 17 March 1995 vol 256 cc764-5W

Mr. Barry Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what were the average class sizes in(a) primary and (b) secondary local education authority schools in (i) 1987 to 1990 and (ii) the last available year in each of the counties of Wales.

Mr. Richards

The information requested is shown in the following table. For secondary schools, comparable information cannot be provided for all the years requested.

LEA maintained secondary schools	Average class size' at September	Average class size2
	1987	1988	1989	1990	September 1990	January 1994
Clwyd	19.8	19.9	19.6	19.5	21.2	20.5
Dyfed	18.7	18.8	18.7	18.8	20.3	19.7
Gwent	18.4	18.4	18.5	18.9	20.2	20.0
Gwynedd	17.7	17.5	17.2	17.5	19.6	18.7
Mid Glamorgan	19.9	19.5	19.3	19.9	21.6	19.9
Powys	16.7	15.9	16.5	17.5	18.5	17.3
South Glamorgan	20.6	20.3	20.0	20.2	22.9	21.9
West Glamorgan	19.1	18.8	18.9	19.6	22.0	21.1
Wales	19.1	19.0	18.9	19.2	21.0	20.1

Notes:

¹Number of pupils divided by the number of teachers teaching in a specified period on the day of the schools census.

²Number of pupils divided by the number of classes in which they were being taught in a specified period on the day of the schools census.

Source:

Schools Census.