§ Mr. GoodmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many pupils entered primary schools in the Wycombe constituency in each year since 1997, broken down by ethnic group. [85531]
§ Mr. Stephen TwiggThe information requested is not available centrally. The table provides the overall number of pupils by ethnic group.
Maintained primary schools in Wycombe parliamentary constituency: number of pupils by ethnic group—position at January in each year Pupils of compulsory school age and above White Black Caribbean Black African Black Other Indian Pakistani 1997 5,963 377 22 89 72 1,481 1998 5,920 391 20 97 84 1,524 1999 5,139 335 17 89 76 1,387 2000 5,037 321 29 74 68 1,396 2001 4,867 300 36 89 79 1,365 2002 4,766 270 36 91 76 1,384
Pupils of compulsory school age and above Bangladeshi Chinese Other Classified1 Unclassified Total2 1997 21 22 206 8,253 83 8,336 1998 16 18 177 8,247 61 8,308 1999 25 22 174 7,264 11 7,275 2000 29 24 263 7,241 7 7,248 2001 28 24 352 7,140 7 7,147 2002 30 23 276 6,952 83 7,035 1 Pupils of compulsory school age were classified according to ethnic group. 2 Collection of ethnic group data was made for pupils of compulsory school age and above only. Source:
Annual Schools' Census