Written question asked by Brian Jenkins (Labour) on Thursday, 3 November 2005, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 7 November 2005. It was answered by Baroness Smith of Malvern (Labour) on Tuesday, 22 November 2005 on behalf of the Department for Education and Skills.

Class Sizes

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the average class size was in (a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools in (i) England, (ii) Staffordshire and (iii) Tamworth.

Answer

The information requested is shown in the following table.

Maintained primary schools: average class size taught by one teacher. England, Staffordshire local authority and Tamworth parliamentary constituency.⁽³⁶⁾
Position as at January each year
	1997			2005
	Maintained primary	Maintained secondary	Maintained primary	Maintained secondary
England	27.5	21.7	26.2	21.7
Staffordshire local authority	27.5	22.3		—
Staffordshire local authority	—	-	26.0	21.5
Tamworth parliamentary constituency	27.5	21.5	25.7	21.0
Source: Annual Schools' Census
⁽³⁶⁾ Classes taught during a single selected period in each school on the day of the census in January.
⁽³⁷⁾ Includes middle schools as deemed.
⁽³⁸⁾ Before local government re-organisation.
⁽³⁹⁾ After local government Re-organisation.

Secondary information

Type: Written question
Reference: 26167; 439 c1942-4W;439 c1944W
Session: 2005-06
Subjects: Class sizes Primary education Schools Secondary education Staffordshire Tamworth
Contains statistics: Yes
Link: View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk