§ Mr. ClappisonTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to his answer of 2 May 2000,Official Report, column 92W, what was the pupil: teacher ratio in (a) former grant-maintained primary schools and (b) former grant-maintained secondary schools in each of the last five years. [121270]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisThe available information on pupil teacher ratios in maintained primary and secondary schools is shown in the following table.
The Department is currently collecting information on pupil:teacher ratios in all schools for January 2000. Provisional national estimates for maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools were published in 345W Statistical First Release "Pupil: Teacher ratios in maintained schools in England (14/2000)" on 12 April 2000, a copy of which is available from the Library. Final data will be published in a statistical volume in September.
Pupil:teacher ratios in maintained primary and secondary schools:1995–99—Position as at January England Year Number of schools Full-time equivalent Pupil 2 Full-time equivalent qualified Teacher 3 Pupils Teachers ratio 4 All maintained primary schools 1 1999 18,234 4,300,563 182,646 23.5 1998 18,312 4,300,388 181,394 23.7 1997 18,392 4,271,131 182,442 23.4 1996 18,480 4,232,514 182,626 23.2 1995 18,551 4,159,021 181,910 22.9 All maintained secondary schools 1 1999 3,560 3,121,901 183,578 17.0 1998 3,567 3,072,822 181,853 16.9 1997 3,569 3,041,584 181,692 16.7 1996 3,594 3,010,416 180,868 16.6 1995 3,614 2,992,857 181,445 16.5 Grant-maintained primary schools 1999 511 142,478 6,056 23.5 1998 508 139,619 5,947 23.5 1997 483 131,712 5,656 23.3 1996 448 120,319 5,214 23.1 1995 410 107,803 4,731 22.8 Grant maintained secondary schools 1999 668 641,774 38,514 16.7 1998 667 625,781 38,030 16.5 1997 652 602,936 36,838 16.4 1996 642 579,924 35,493 16.3 1997 622 553,007 34,154 16.2 1 Includes local education authority (LEA) maintained and grant-maintained schools. 2 Includes all full-time pupils and full-time equivalent of part time pupils (each part-time pupil is treated as 0.5 full-time equivalents). 3 Includes all full-time qualified teachers and full-time equivalent of part time qualified teachers (the directed hours of part-time teachers are converted to full-time equivalent teacher numbers by dividing by 32.5) 4 The Pupil: Teacher ratio relates the full-time equivalent number of pupils to the full-time equivalent number of qualified teachers.