HC Deb 03 December 1996 vol 286 cc603-7W
Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list(a) the grammar schools in England, grouping them by parliamentary constituency and (b) the percentage of secondary school age children attending grammar schools in each parliamentary constituency. [5898]

Mr. Robin Squire

[holding answer 2 December 1996]The following table lists for each parliamentary constituency in England the maintained secondary schools which classified themselves as selective in the 1996 performance tables. The Department does not have a comprehensive list of maintained secondary schools for each parliamentary constituency.

Selective maintained secondary school1 by parliamentary constituency
Constituency Name of school
Altrincham, Sale Altrincham Grammar School for Girls
Altrinham and Sale Altrincham Boys' GM School
Ashford Highworth Grammar School for Girls
Ashford The Norton Knatchbull School
Aylesbury Aylesbury High School
Aylesbury Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School
Aylesbury Aylesbury Grammar School
Barnet Queen Elizabeth's Boys' School
Batley and Spen Heckmondwike Grammar School
Beaconsfield Beaconsfield High School
Beaconsfield Burnham Grammar School
Bexleyheath Bexley Grammar School
Bexleyheath Townley Road Grammar School for Girls
Birkenhead St. Anselm's College
Birmingham Hall Green King Edward VI Camp Hill Girls' School
Birmingham Hall Green King Edward VI Camp Hill School (Boys)
Birmingham Northfield King Edward VI Five Ways School
Birmingham Perry-Barr Handsworth Grammar School
Birmingham Small Heath King Edward VI Aston School
Birmingham Small Heath King Edward VI Handsworth School
Bournemouth East Bournemouth School
Bournemouth East Bournemouth School for Girls (GM)
Bridgwater Brymore School
Bristol West Cotham Grammar School
Bristol West Fairfield Grammar School
Buckinghamshire The Royal Latin School
Cambridgeshire SE LEA The King's School
Canterbury Barton Court Grammar School
Canterbury Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys
Canterbury Simon Langton Girls' School
Carshalton and Wellington Wallington Boys County Grammar School
Carshalton and Wallington Wallington High School for Girls
Carshalton and Wallington Wilson's School
Chelmsford Chelmsford County High School for Girls
Chelmsford King Edward VI Grammar School
Cheltenham Pate's Grammar School
Chesham and Amersham Chesham High School
Chesham and Amersham Dr. Challoner's High School
Chesham and Amersham Dr. Challoner's Grammar School
Colchester North Colchester Royal Grammar School
Colchester North Royal Grammar School
Colchester South and Maldon Colchester County High School for Girls
Dartford Dartford Grammar School
Dartford Dartford Grammar School for Girls
Dartford The Grammar School for Girls Wilmington
Dartford Wilmington Grammar School for Boys
Davyhulme Sale Grammar School
Davyhulme Urmston Grammar School
Dorset South Budmouth Technology College
Dover Dover Grammar School for Boys
Dover Dover Grammar School for Girls
Edgbaston King Edward VI School
Edmonton The Latymer School
Faversham Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School
Faversham Highsted School
Faversham Borden Grammar School
Finchley St. Michael's Catholic Grammar School
Folkestone and Hythe The Folkestone School for Girls
Folkestone and Hythe The Harvey Grammar School
Gainsborough and Horncastle Caistor Grammar School
Gainsborough and Horncastle Horncastle Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School
Gainsborough and Horncastle Gainsborough Queen Elizabeth's High School
Gloucester High School for Girls
Gloucester Ribston Hall High School
Gloucester The Crypt School
Gloucester Sir Thomas Rich's School
Grantham Carre's Grammar School
Grantham Kesteven and Grantham Girl's School
Grantham Kesteven and Sleaford High School
Gravesham Gravesend Grammar School for Boys
Gravesham Gravesend Grammar School for Girls
Halifax Crossley Heath School
Halifax The North Halifax Grammar School
Hendon South The Henrietta Barnett School
Holland with Boston Boston Grammar School
Holland with Boston Boston High School for Girls
Honiton Colyton Grammar School
Honiton Torquay Boys' Grammar School
Ilford North Ilford County High School
Kent Mid Chatham Girls' Grammar School
Kent Mid Chatham Boys' Grammar School
Kent Mid Fort Pitt Grammar School
Kingston upon Thames Tiffin School
Kingston upon Thames The Tiffin Girls' School
Lancaster Lancaster Girls' Grammar School
Lancaster Lancaster Royal Grammar School

Selective maintained secondary schools1by parliamentary constituency
Constituency Name of school
Lindsey East Alford Queen Elizabeth's GM Grammar School
Lindsey East Skegness Grammar School
Maidstone Oakwood Park Grammar School
Maidstone Invicta Grammar School for Girls
Maidstone Maidstone Grammar School
Maidstone Maidstone Grammar School for Girls
Medway The Rochester Girls' Grammar School
Medway Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School
Mid Kent Rainham Mark Grammar School
Old Bexley and Sidcup Bexley-Erith Technical High School for Boys
Old Bexley and Sidcup Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School
Orpington Newstead Wood School for Girls
Orpington St. Olave's and St. Saviour's Grammar School
Plymouth Drake Devonport High School for Boys
Plymouth Drake Devonport High School for Girls
Plymouth Drake Plymouth High School for Girls
Poole Parkstone Grammar School (Girls)
Poole Poole Grammar School
Reading East Reading School
Reading East Kendrick Girls' Grammar School
Ribble Valley Clitheroe Royal Grammar School
Rossendale and Davewen Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School
Rugby and Kenilworth Lawrence Sheriff School
Rugby and Kenilworth Rugby High School for Girls
Salisbury Bishop Wordsworth's Grammar School
Salisbury South Wiltshire Grammar School for Girls
Shropshire North Adams' Grammar School
Shropshire North Newport Girls' High School
Skipton and Ripon Ermysted's Grammar School
Skipton and Ripon Ripon Grammar School
Skipton and Ripon Skipton Girls' High School
Slough Herschel Grammar School
Slough Langley Grammar School
Slough Slough Grammar School
Slough St. Bernard's Convent School
South Hampshire Churston Grammar School
Southend East Southend High School for Girls
Southend West Southend High School for Boys
Southend West Westcliff High School for Boys
Southend West Westcliffe High School for Girls
Stamford with Spalding Bourne Grammar School
Stamford with Spalding Spalding Grammar School
Stamford with Spalding Spalding High School
Stratford upon Avon Alcester Grammar School
Stratford upon Avon King Edward VI Grammar School
Stratford upon Avon Stratford upon Avon Grammar School for Girls
Stretford Stretford Grammar School
Stroud Marling School
Stroud Stroud High School
Sutton and Cheam Nonsuch High School for Girls
Sutton and Cheam Sutton Grammar School for Boys
Sutton Coldfield Sutton Coldfield Girl's School
Sutton Coldfield Bishop Vesey's Grammar School
Thanet South Chatham House Grammar School for Boys
Thanet South Dane Court Grammar School
Thanet South Sir Roger Manwood's School
Thanet South Clarendon House Girls' Grammar School
Tonbridge and Malling Tonbridge Grammar School for Girls
Tonbridge and Malling Weald of Kent Grammar School
Tonbridge and Malling The Judd School
Torbay Torquay Grammar School for Girls
Tunbridge Wells Cranbrook School
Tunbridge Wells The Skinners' School
Tunbridge Wells Tunbridge Wells Girls's Grammar School
Tunbridge Wells Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys
Walsall South Queen Mary's Grammar School
Walsall South Queen Mary's High School
Wanstead and Woodford Woodford County High School
Wirral South Wirral Grammar School for Boys
Wirral South Wirral County Grammar School (girls)
Wirral West Calday Grange Grammar School
Wirral West Upton Hall Convent School
Wirral West West Kirby Grammar School for Girls
Wolverhampton South West Wolverhampton Girl's High School
Wycombe John Hampden Grammar School
Wycombe Sir William Borlase's Grammar School
Wycombe Wycombe High School
1Maintained secondary schools which classified themselves as selective in the 1996 performance tables.

Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list(a) the grammar schools in England, grouping them by local education authority area and (b) the percentage of secondary school age children attending grammar schools in each local education authority area. [5901]

Mr. Robin Squire

[holding answer 2 December 1996]I refer the hon. Gentleman to the reply I gave to the hon. Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Mr. Jamieson) on 25 November,Official Report, columns 16–21, which lists for each local education authority area in England the maintained secondary schools which classified themselves as selective in the 1996 performance tables.

The following table lists for each local education authority area in England the number of pupils attending those maintained secondary schools which classified themselves as selective in the 1996 performance tables expressed as a percentage of the number of pupils attending maintained secondary schools.

Percentage of pupils attending maintained selective schools1 by local education authority area in England: January 1996
Per cent.
Corporation of London n/a
Camden 0.0
Greenwich 0.0
Hackney 0.0
Hammersmith and Fulham 0.0
Islington 0.0
Kensington and Chelsea 0.0
Lambeth 0.0
Lewisham 0.0
Southwark 0.0
Tower Hamlets 0.0
Wandsworth 0.0
Westminster 0.0
Barking and Dagenham 0.0
Barnet 14.1
Bexley 36.2
Brent 0.0
Bromley 8.7
Croydon 0.0
Ealing 0.0
Enfield 7.5
Haringey 0.0
Harrow 0.0
Havering 0.0
Hillingdon 0.0
Hounslow 0.0
Kingston upon Thames 29.5
Merton 0.0
Newham 0.0
Redbridge 10.3
Richmond upon Thames 0.0
Sutton 50.4
Waltham Forest 0.0
Birmingham 10.2
Coventry 0.0
Dudley 0.0
Sandwell 0.0
Solihull 0.0
Walsall 7.2
Wolverhampton 4.2
Knowsley 0.0
Liverpool 0.0
St. Helens 0.0
Sefton 0.0
Wirral 33.3
Bolton 0.0
Bury 0.0
Manchester 0.0
Oldham 0.0
Rochdale 0.0
Salford 0.0

Percentage of pupils attending maintained selective schools1 by local education authority area in England: January 1996
Per cent.
Stockport 0.0
Tameside 0.0
Trafford 56.6
Wigan 0.0
Barnsley 0.0
Doncaster 0.0
Rotherham 0.0
Sheffield 0.0
Bradford 0.0
Calderdale 13.0
Kirklees 3.1
Leeds 0.0
Wakefield 0.0
Gateshead 0.0
Newcastle upon Tyne 0.0
North Tyneside 0.0
South Tyneside 0.0
Sunderland 0.0
Isles of Scilly 0.0
Avon 2.7
Bedfordshire 0.0
Berkshire 9.5
Buckinghamshire 47.6
Cambridge 0.0
Cheshire 0.0
Cleveland 0.0
Cornwall 0.0
Cumbria 0.0
Derbyshire 0.0
Devon 9.7
Dorset 12.2
Durham 0.0
East Sussex 0.0
Essex 6.9
Gloucestershire 16.8
Hampshire 0.0
Hereford and Worcester 0.0
Hertfordshire 0.0
Humberside 0.0
Isle of Wight 0.0
Kent 44.1
Lancashire 4.4
Leicestershire 0.0
Lincolnshire 37.4
Norfolk 0.0
North Yorkshire 4.3
Northamptonshire 0.0
Northumberland 0.0
Nottinghamshire 0.0
Oxfordshire 0.0
Shropshire 3.4
Somerset 0.7
Staffordshire 0.0
Suffolk 0.0
Surrey 0.0
Warwickshire 11.3
West Sussex 0.0
Wiltshire 4.6
England 4.5
Source:
Annual Schools' Census.
1Number of pupils attending maintained secondary schools which classified themselves as selective in the 1996 performance tables expressed as a percentage of the number of pupils attending maintained secondary schools.
1Not applicable.