HC Deb 18 June 1999 vol 333 cc239-43W
Mr. Maclean

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list, by local authority,(a) the number of pupils in classes of more than 30, (b) the percentage of pupils in classes of 31 or more,

Number and percentage of pupils in classes of 31 or more taught by one teacher and pupils on roll in maintained primary and secondary schools by Local Education Authority area in England January 1997
Primary schools Pupils in class Secondary schools Pupils in class
Pupils in classes of 31 or more (%)1 Average size of class2 Pupils on roll3 Pupils in classes of 31 or more (%)1 Average size of class2 Pupils on roll3
England 1,344,231 33 27.5 4,429,043 245,420 9 21.7 3,041,584
North East 68,173 30 27.2 248,434 14,665 9 22.0 177,905
Hartlepool 2,833 30 28.0 10.538 413 7 22.0 6,176
Middlesbrough 3,700 24 26.5 17,267 349 4 22.0 8,608
Redcar and Cleveland 4,576 31 27.4 16,680 549 6 22.2 10,161
Stockton-on-Tees 4,507 24 26.8 20,531 415 3 22.2 12,517
Durham 21,429 41 28.5 57,442 3,398 10 22.5 37,976
Northumberland 8,314 43 27.0 21,839 3,959 15 22.6 30,052
Gateshead 2,112 13 25.8 18,566 662 6 20.4 11,745
Newcastle upon Tyne 6,904 34 27.6 22,220 1,569 10 21.5 17,378
North Tyneside 4,779 31 27.1 17.027 1,419 11 21.9 14,369
South Tyneside 3,996 28 27.0 16,175 758 8 22.7 9,724
Sunderland 5,023 18 26.0 30.149 1,174 7 21.3 19,199
North West and Merseyside 242,764 39 27.9 686,676 42,673 10 21.8 437,763
North West 201,712 41 28.1 539,526 34,935 11 22.0 341,745
Cheshire 33,630 39 27.5 92,808 7,140 12 21.3 65,767
Cumbria 11,984 29 26.3 44,895 3,406 11 21.2 32,372
Bolton 11,422 49 28.9 28,512 2,324 14 22.1 17,798
Bury 7,178 44 28.3 18,095 1,510 14 23.1 11,100
Manchester 10,615 25 27.2 46,356 1,801 9 22.4 22,233
Oldham 10,645 48 29.3 25,111 1,048 7 22.2 16,676
Rochdale 9,004 45 29.6 22,354 1,325 11 22.8 13,168
Salford 7,043 31 27.3 23,828 501 4 22.1 12,078
Stockport 9,446 37 27.8 26,941 947 6 23.1 15,677
Tameside 11,566 53 29.3 23,830 1,195 9 23.0 14,220
Trafford 9,693 50 28.9 21,462 609 5 21.7 13,225
Wigan 11,098 42 28.5 30,276 1,311 7 21.5 19,984
Lancashire 58,388 47 28.8 135,058 11,818 14 22.5 87,447
Merseyside 41,052 31 27.1 147,150 7,738 9 20.9 96,018
Knowsley 5,820 33 27.7 19,788 579 6 22.1 9,670
Liverpool 12,581 27 26.8 49,345 2,936 10 21.1 31,767
St. Helens 6,270 41 27.8 18,027 1,265 11 19.9 11,873
Sefton 9,634 38 27.6 28,115 1,269 7 21.1 19,630
Wirral 6,747 23 26.3 31,875 1,689 8 20.5 23,078
Yorkshire and Humberside 159,744 37 27.9 482,447 27,167 9 21.9 334,065
East Riding of Yorkshire 10,254 40 28.3 27,126 1,148 6 21.0 20,789
City of Kingston-upon-Hull 10,164 39 28.8 28,446 1,345 9 24.3 15,082
North East Lincolnshire 6,228 40 28.1 17,265 1,445 14 23.2 11,185
North Lincolnshire 4,932 36 27.7 14,972 1,281 13 22.5 10,398
York 4,961 35 27.6 14,905 670 8 21.6 9,320
North Yorkshire 15,129 34 26.3 47.927 2,174 6 20.6 37,039
Barnsley 9,082 44 28.9 22,216 726 6 23.2 12,932
Doncaster 10,052 35 28.1 31,343 979 5 21.5 20,734
Rotherham 8,094 34 27.7 25,822 1,276 8 21.6 19,150
Sheffield 11,261 28 26.9 46,380 2,054 8 22.7 27,447
Bradford 13,443 39 28.3 42,327 5,771 14 23.2 46,179
Calderdale 6,185 33 28.0 20.605 884 7 20.9 14,067
Kirklees 15,730 48 29.0 38,649 2,504 11 22.5 25,564
Leeds 22,031 35 28.3 71,508 2,819 7 20.7 44,423
Wakefield 12,198 41 28.2 32,956 2,091 11 22.2 19,756
East Midlands 133,725 39 27.8 377,257 18,359 7 21.6 272,020
Derbyshire 44,864 55 29.3 89,507 6,067 11 22.2 58,890
Leicestershire 22,862 30 26.7 83,027 3,489 6 22.3 61,800
Lincolnshire 14,644 29 26.9 53,619 1,525 4 20.2 39,997
Northamptonshire 13,015 26 27.0 54,701 2,034 5 21.0 45,934

(c) the average class size and (d) the total number of pupils in maintained (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools in January 1997. [86975]

Ms Estelle Morris

The information is shown in the following table:

Number and percentage of pupils in classes of 31 or more taught by one teacher and pupils on roll in maintained primary and secondary schools by Local Education Authority area in England January 1997
Primary schools Pupils in class Secondary schools Pupils in class
Pupils in classes of 31 or more (%)1 Average size of class2 Pupils on roll3 Pupils in classes of 31 or more (%)1 Average size of class2 Pupils on roll3
Nottinghamshire 38,340 44 28.7 96,403 5,244 9 21.7 65,399
West Midlands 152,230 33 27.4 511,667 37,160 11 22.0 350,644
Hereford and Worcester 12,527 25 26.0 52,887 6,286 14 22.0 47,636
Shropshire 13,545 38 27.4 38,067 2,778 12 21.9 26,109
Staffordshire 31,492 35 27.5 96,437 9,818 15 22.2 71,712
Warwickshire 17,493 43 28.5 43,662 2,397 9 22.2 30,280
Birmingham 24,848 26 27.7 109,673 7,776 13 21.8 66,867
Coventry 8,641 31 27.6 30,478 1,846 10 22.6 19,738
Dudley 6,904 27 26.5 30,884 671 4 23.1 18,912
Sandwell 12,606 44 28.9 32,962 1,343 7 21.7 19,087
Solihull 8,478 43 27.9 21,581 1,141 8 21.9 14,387
Walsall 7,527 32 26.2 28,743 1,813 10 20.7 20,078
Wolverhampton 8,169 38 26.9 26,293 1,291 9 21.0 15,838
Eastern 121,738 29 26.9 448,359 22,874 7 21.3 348,217
Bedfordshire 12,890 33 27.4 44,748 3,330 8 22.5 46,378
Cambridgeshire 20,831 36 28.2 60,924 3,793 10 22.1 42,018
Essex 38,831 30 27.3 136,385 8,263 9 21.7 97,649
Hertfordshire 27,264 33 27.1 92,397 5,291 8 20.3 70,982
Norfolk 13,402 22 25.9 66,666 919 2 20.2 41,583
Suffolk 8,520 19 25.0 47,239 1,278 3 21.1 49,607
London 117,578 22 27.1 624,655 22,096 7 21.7 375,145
Inner London 15,393 8 26.3 226,370 3,992 4 22.4 117,536
City of London 0 0 26.0 208 4 4 4 4
Camden 698 8 27.1 11,294 188 2 20.3 10,932
Hackney 824 6 26.1 18,141 312 5 22.3 7,347
Hammersmith and Fulham 1,106 14 25.3 9,465 511 10 22.6 6,040
Haringey 851 5 26.9 21,610 290 3 21.6 10,069
Islington 702 5 26.6 16,232 270 4 24.0 7,580
Kensington and Chelsea 219 4 25.3 6,568 161 6 20.2 3,313
Lambeth 1,192 8 25.2 19,193 252 4 21.9 6,589
Lewisham 1,207 7 26.1 21,984 0 0 20.7 10,857
Newham 3,021 13 27.9 28,543 313 2 24.5 15,655
Southwark 1,748 9 26.4 23,182 639 8 24.4 9,157
Tower Hamlets 1,047 6 26.2 22,472 197 2 24.0 13,060
Wandsworth 2,299 15 25.8 17,874 691 9 22.0 9,280
Westminster 479 7 24.2 9,604 168 3 21.5 7,657
Outer London 102,185 30 27.5 398,285 18,104 8 21.4 257,609
Barking and Dagenham 2,022 13 27.0 17,883 840 9 20.8 10,143
Barnet 2,456 11 26.2 25,981 689 4 19.8 19,783
Bexley 9,314 45 28.8 22,223 1,982 14 21.8 15,317
Brent 2,383 13 26.5 22,478 353 3 20.5 13,565
Bromley 13,110 55 28.5 24,292 1,844 11 20.4 18,648
Croydon 7,042 26 28.3 30,432 1,339 9 22.2 15,481
Ealing 5,258 22 27.1 27,213 894 7 22.4 14,182
Enfield 9,965 46 29.1 26,028 1,751 10 20.7 18,959
Greenwich 2,126 12 26.0 21,608 469 4 22.5 13,644
Harrow 3,663 22 27.5 19,971 98 1 22.9 8,304
Havering 5,763 29 27.9 21,001 981 7 21.7 14,703
Hillingdon 5,212 28 27.2 22,440 1,457 10 21.1 15,010
Hounslow 4,907 29 26.8 19,828 1,052 8 21.0 15,286
Kingston-upon-Thames 6,682 66 29.4 11,530 912 12 20.2 8,184
Merton 3,676 29 27.3 16,159 542 8 22.7 7,619
Redbridge 8,074 46 28.4 21,103 1,415 10 21.0 16,842
Richmond-upon-Thames 2,671 25 27.2 12,074 194 3 24.0 7,688
Sutton 5,222 40 28.1 14,630 791 7 20.7 12,416
Waltham Forest 2,639 15 26.6 21,411 501 5 23.6 11,835
South East 205,178 33 27.5 653,419 32,106 8 21.3 454,813
Berkshire 18,680 32 27.5 64,851 3,846 8 20.7 49,652
Buckinghamshire 23,085 38 27.9 66,291 3,453 10 21.3 38,312
East Sussex 23,330 46 28.2 55,821 2,093 6 21.4 36,281
Hampshire 47,671 36 27.9 139,425 5,211 6 22.2 86,211
Isle of Wight 1,639 23 25.9 7,387 853 8 22.3 10,969
Kent 47,339 36 28.0 137,962 4,523 5 20.3 104,812
Oxfordshire 13,090 31 27.2 44,733 3,975 12 22.2 36,531
Surrey 15,007 20 26.2 78,781 4,846 10 21.7 51,703
West Sussex 15,337 27 26.8 58,168 3,306 9 21.6 40,342
Number and percentage of pupils in classes of 31 or more taught by one teacher and pupils on roll in maintained primary and secondary schools by Local Education Authority area in England January 1997
Primary schools Pupils in class Secondary schools Pupils in class
Pupils in classes of 31 or more (%)1 Average size of class2 Pupils on roll3 Pupils in classes of 31 or more (%)1 Average size of class2 Pupils on roll3
South West 143,101 38 27.5 396,129 28,320 10 21.7 291,012
Bath and NE Somerset 3,579 29 27.0 13,111 766 7 20.7 11,483
City of Bristol 9,905 32 27.2 33,642 672 4 21.1 16,518
North Somerset 4,675 33 27.8 14,775 816 8 20.4 11,882
South Gloucestershire 9,563 45 28.5 22,596 1,599 12 21.5 15,216
Cornwall 16,082 40 27.3 41,862 2,756 10 22.0 29,815
Isles of Scilly 33 21 17.3 160 0 0 21.0 108
Devon 31,181 38 27.4 84,938 6,039 11 21.4 62,047
Dorset 22,462 50 28.2 48,479 4,544 11 21.8 43,583
Gloucestershire 15,280 34 27.4 46,248 3,677 11 21.5 34,961
Somerset 14,096 38 27.6 38,509 3,840 14 23.2 28,854
Wiltshire 16,245 32 27.2 51,809 3,611 11 21.7 36,545
1 Pupils in classes of size 31 or more expressed as a percentage of all pupils in classes taught by one teacher
2 All classes taught by one teacher
3 Includes pupils in classes taught by more than one teacher and pupils not in class
4 Not applicable (no schools of this type)

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