Written question asked by Andrew Smith (Labour) on Wednesday, 7 December 2005, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 12 December 2005. It was answered by Baroness Smith of Malvern (Labour) on Monday, 19 December 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 and (b) secondary schools in Oxford, East in each year since 2001.

Answer

The information requested is shown in the table.

Maintained primary and secondary schools; average class size of one teacher classes Position as at January each year ⁽¹⁹⁾
	Maintained primary	Maintained secondary
2001	25.6	23.9
2002	24.3	23.4
2003	24.0	22.3
2004	26.0	21.3
2005	26.8	20.5
Source: Annual Schools' Census
⁽¹⁹⁾ Includes middle schools as deemed.
⁽²⁰⁾ Classes taught during a single selected period in each school on the day of the Census in January.

Secondary information