Written question asked by Baroness Teather (Liberal Democrat) on Tuesday, 8 November 2005, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 10 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 is in (a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools in Brent.

Answer

The information requested is shown in the following table.

Maintained primary and secondary schools: average class size. Taught by one teacher.⁽⁴⁰⁾
January 2005
	Maintained primary	Maintained secondary
Brent local authority	27.3	20.7
Source: Annual Schools' Census
⁽⁴⁰⁾ Classes taught during a single selected period in each school on the day of the census in January.
⁽⁴¹⁾ Includes middle schools as deemed.

Secondary information