Written question asked by Ashok Kumar (Labour) on Wednesday, 13 June 2007, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Friday, 15 June 2007. It was answered by Lord Knight of Weymouth (Labour) on Thursday, 21 June 2007 on behalf of the Department for Education and Skills.

Class Sizes: Middlesbrough

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the average class size was for (a) secondary schools and (b) primary schools in Middlesbrough, South and East Cleveland in each of the last 10 years.

Answer

The available information is given in the table.

Maintained primary and secondary schools¹: average class size²: Position in January each year 1998 to 2007³: Middlesbrough, South and East Cleveland constituency
	Middlesbrough, South and East Cleveland constituency	England
	Primary	Secondary	Primary	Secondary
1998	26.4	22.2	27.7	21.7
1999	26.3	22.1	27.5	21.9
2000	26.0	22.1	27.1	22.0
2001	25.4	22.3	26.7	22.0
2002	24.1	21.1	26.3	21.9
2003	24.6	21.5	26.3	21.9
2004	24.0	21.5	26.2	21.8
2005	23.4	23.1	26.2	21.7
2006	23.8	22.7	26.3	21.5
2007³	24.0	22.4	26.2	21.3
¹ Includes middle schools as deemed.
² Classes taught by one teacher during a single selected period on the census day in January.
³ Provisional data
Source:
School Census

Secondary information