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Written question asked by Baroness Featherstone (Liberal Democrat) on Monday, 15 October 2007, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 17 October 2007. It was answered by Lord Knight of Weymouth (Labour) on Thursday, 18 October 2007 on behalf of the Department for Children, Schools and Families.

Class Sizes: Greater London

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the teacher-pupil ratio was in each London borough in each of the last five years.
Answer

The following table provides the overall pupil teacher ratio within maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools in local authority areas within London, January 2003 to 2007.

Overall¹ Pupil/Teacher ratios by local authority area within London
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
England 17.9 17.7 17.4 17.2 17.1
London 17.2 17.2 16.8 16.7 16.6
Camden 15.9 15.7 16.0 15.6 15.2
City of London 11.9 14.3 14.3 16.2 16.7
Hackney 16.3 16.2 15.5 15.8 14.8
Hammersmith and Fulham 16.4 16.3 15.7 16.0 16.5
Haringey 17.3 17.5 16.5 16.5 16.8
Islington 16.9 16.3 16.1 15.9 15.7
Kensington and Chelsea 15.0 16.0 15.9 15.5 15.5
Lambeth 17.2 16.9 15.8 16.4 15.9
Lewisham 16.7 17.1 17.4 17.7 17.7
Newham 18.1 17.0 17.1 16.5 16.5
Southwark 17.1 17.4 17.4 17.3 16.7
Tower Hamlets 16.0 16.4 16.2 15.8 15.3
Wandsworth 16.7 16.5 16.1 16.3 16.0
Westminster 14.4 14 7 13.4 15.7 15.1
Barking and Dagenham 18.0 17.2 17.8 17.7 17.4
Barnet 16.3 16.7 16.6 16.4 16.8
Bexley 18.7 18.9 19.5 18.5 18.1
Brent 16.8 16.7 15.6 16.1 15.9
Bromley 18.0 18.0 17.4 17.1 16.9
Croydon 16.9 17.0 16.2 17.4 17.7
Ealing 17.9 18.1 17.6 17.8 17.7
Enfield 16.8 16.8 16.4 16.1 16.3
Greenwich 16.5 16.7 16.3 15.7 15.2
Harrow 17.9 17.8 17.5 16.9 16.4
Havering 17.2 17.0 17.1 16.3 16.6
Hillingdon 18.8 17.5 17.0 16.8 16.6
Hounslow 17.3 16.5 16.0 16.0 16 1
Kingston upon Thames 17.7 17.8 17.5 17.5 17.3
Merton 178 19.0 18.1 18,3 18.6
Redbridge 18.0 17.8 18.1 17.2 17.2
Richmond upon Thames 17.8 18.6 18.6 17.9 19.0
Sutton 17.6 18.5 17.9 17.5 17.0
Waltham Forest 18.4 17.5 17.0 16.9 16.8
¹ The overall PTR is based on the total FTE number of pupils on roil in local authority maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools and the FTE of all teachers in these schools (including: centrally employed; occasional teachers; those on employment based routes to QTS; others without QTS, those on paid absence and any replacements). Source: School Census (Pupils numbers) and 618G Survey (Teacher numbers)

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
159003; 464 c1295W
Session
2006-07
Subjects
Class sizes Greater London
Link
View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk