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Teachers: South West

Answer

The following tables provide the full-time equivalent number of teachers and teaching assistants in service in local authority maintained schools, city technology colleges and academies in each constituency in the south-west Government office region, in each January, 1997 to 2009.Further information by constituency is provided within the Department's 'In Your Area' website available at:"http://www.dfes.gov.uk/inyourarea"Information available at constituency level includes the number of specialist schools, number of operational academies, number of teaching assistants and other support staff, number of teachers and pupil:teacher ratios. Where information is not available at constituency level it has been provided at local authority level.Additional information could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Full-time equivalent teachers¹ in service in local authority maintained schools, city technology colleges and academies. Years: January 1997 to 2009: Coverage: parliamentary constituencies in the south-west Government office region (GOR)
	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
South-West GOR²,³	34,950	34,990	35,360	35,900	36,930	37,980	38,220	38,280	38,800	39,440	39,570	40,130	40,360
Bath	680	680	680	690	690	700	670	640	650	660	680	690	700
Bournemouth East	580	590	600	600	630	650	640	630	630	620	630	660	660
Bournemouth West	410	430	440	440	470	480	480	480	470	460	480	490	480
Bridgwater	650	650	650	670	680	710	720	720	730	730	740	760	770
Bristol East	620	600	550	660	710	620	640	650	660	680	670	710	700
Bristol North West	900	890	910	900	910	910	920	940	900	920	930	910	910
Bristol South	860	830	790	860	870	840	810	830	820	850	810	780	840
Bristol West	430	430	440	440	450	450	440	440	460	470	480	530	640
Cheltenham	610	680	690	700	710	670	680	690	670	680	690	690	700
Christchurch	560	570	590	610	620	560	580	590	530	600	590	570	570
Cotswold	690	700	720	730	750	770	810	800	820	830	830	830	840
Devizes	800	800	800	800	810	840	860	870	910	910	910	940	950
East Devon	470	470	490	500	520	540	540	560	570	580	580	600	610
Exeter	650	660	650	660	670	690	690	720	700	700	690	720	730
Falmouth and Camborne	670	660	660	660	680	690	710	710	730	730	730	730	720
Forest of Dean	590	550	560	550	580	660	660	650	670	680	680	680	690
Gloucester	910	910	930	940	980	1,010	1,050	1,070	1,080	1,120	1,120	1,130	1,140
Kingswood	750	750	730	760	780	820	840	830	820	840	840	860	880
Mid Dorset and North Poole	830	840	820	830	850	870	900	870	880	900	890	920	900
North Cornwall	850	830	840	870	880	900	890	900	920	950	960	980	970
North Devon	630	630	640	640	660	700	710	720	710	750	750	760	760
North Dorset	570	590	600	600	620	740	750	770	810	840	840	840	840
North Swindon	720	720	730	770	810	770	740	780	770	780	750	800	840
North Wiltshire	830	820	820	840	890	900	910	910	950	990	1,020	1,060	1,070
Northavon	840	840	870	890	920	940	940	890	910	920	920	940	940
Plymouth, Devonport	1,020	1,010	1,000	1,010	1,020	1,050	1,040	1,010	1,010	1,000	980	980	950
Plymouth, Sutton	550	550	590	610	640	620	610	600	610	630	630	650	640
Poole	420	430	420	430	450	450	460	440	440	460	480	460	470
St. Ives	640	640	620	630	660	670	690	690	700	700	700	730	730
Salisbury	740	740	730	740	760	760	780	790	790	790	800	810	300
Somerton and Frame	660	670	670	680	690	710	720	720	710	720	720	720	700
South Dorset	480	480	490	490	500	520	520	520	530	540	520	530	540
South East Cornwall	700	690	700	710	750	760	760	750	770	800	800	810	790
South Swindon	680	690	690	710	710	800	790	780	760	780	840	830	340
South West Devon	670	690	700	720	740	780	780	770	800	790	770	790	800
Stroud	710	720	720	730	760	790	800	780	810	820	830	840	830
Taunton	680	650	650	670	690	740	740	790	780	770	770	780	780
Teignbridge	640	650	670	670	690	730	730	730	740	750	760	770	750
Tewkesbury	680	680	680	700	720	750	770	770	780	780	810	820	800
Tiverton and Honiton	750	760	790	780	810	860	850	840	850	880	890	900	900
Torbay	720	740	770	770	790	830	820	710	740	750	850	870	850
Torridge and West Devon	680	700	720	720	750	770	770	780	790	800	790	790	800
Totnes	620	640	640	650	680	710	710	860	870	920	770	790	800
Truro and St. Austell	660	650	650	650	660	700	700	710	720	730	730	760	770
Wansdyke	860	860	870	890	900	950	940	930	950	960	980	990	990
Wells	680	680	690	710	720	760	780	770	790	800	800	800	800
West Dorset	700	730	750	760	790	820	850	910	910	910	940	940	940
Westbury	760	740	760	780	830	860	860	860	890	910	920	920	920
Weston-Super-Mare	690	670	660	660	670	700	690	710	710	740	740	750	750
Woodspring	710	690	690	700	700	720	720	710	740	750	780	780	790
Yeovil	690	680	670	680	710	740	750	740	770	760	750	750	750
¹ Includes qualified and unqualified teachers.
² City technology colleges are excluded for 1997, 1998 and 1999, from the parliamentary constituency breakdown. They are included in the regional totals.
³ A small number of teaching assistants are included in the South West region total but excluded from the parliamentary breakdown because the constituency of some institutions is unknown.
Source:
School Census

Full-time equivalent teaching assistants in service in local authority maintained schools, city technology colleges and academies. Years: January 1997 to 2009: Coverage: parliamentary constituencies in the south-west Government office region (GOR)
	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
South-west (GOR)¹,²	4,940	5,500	5,950	6,680	8,090	8,980	10,070	11,180	12,670	13,460	14,000	14,700	14,940
Bath	90	90	100	100	110	40	70	50	90	130	200	190	160
Bournemouth East	40	50	70	100	120	180	170	190	200	210	230	240	250
Bournemouth West	50	80	100	110	130	200	200	220	200	250	260	280	310
Bridgwater	130	150	150	150	180	220	240	210	230	310	330	300	290
Bristol East	140	140	120	160	170	190	180	210	230	230	230	260	210
Bristol North West	220	220	220	240	260	270	290	330	340	360	380	420	350
Bristol South	220	250	220	270	300	310	300	350	390	360	390	370	280
Bristol West	80	90	100	100	130	150	150	180	180	210	200	200	140
Cheltenham	70	70	80	90	120	90	80	80	120	110	110	140	120
Christchurch	40	50	70	100	110	100	160	210	230	250	250	260	270
Cotswold	60	60	70	80	100	90	120	110	120	140	130	140	130
Devizes	80	90	90	110	120	150	140	220	180	200	200	280	370
East Devon	30	50	60	60	100	140	160	200	210	230	230	240	260
Exeter	100	120	120	140	190	250	290	350	350	370	380	420	490
Falmouth and Camborne	150	190	200	210	220	210	220	210	400	350	350	370	380
Forest of Dean	70	60	80	80	110	120	130	120	160	180	140	150	140
Gloucester	130	130	150	160	190	170	180	170	220	290	310	220	270
Kingswood	130	140	150	160	200	230	250	260	280	300	320	310	310
Mid Dorset and North Poole	60	80	120	150	170	280	270	300	320	350	360	370	410
North Cornwall	180	200	220	240	240	220	300	220	400	340	340	420	430
North Devon	90	100	100	120	160	210	280	310	340	370	380	400	430
North Dorset	70	100	90	140	150	200	240	300	320	340	340	380	410
North Swindon	100	120	100	130	160	140	120	220	190	210	260	340	390
North Wiltshire	80	70	80	80	90	140	150	170	180	200	210	260	280
Northavon	120	130	120	160	200	200	250	240	250	260	360	270	280
Plymouth, Devonport	120	160	190	170	370	320	380	350	350	470	420	430	320
Plymouth, Sutton	50	50	80	90	200	180	180	150	220	220	180	240	190
Poole	30	40	60	70	90	180	170	190	180	200	220	230	240
St. Ives	160	160	170	160	180	190	220	240	310	250	270	310	360
Salisbury	90	90	80	80	100	140	170	180	200	160	160	190	260
Somerton and Frome	100	120	120	120	140	150	180	150	180	240	250	160	210
South Dorset	60	80	100	130	180	180	200	280	290	310	340	350	380
South East Cornwall	170	190	200	210	200	170	230	270	370	330	330	390	400
South Swindon	100	130	120	140	160	80	100	200	190	170	190	230	230
South West Devon	50	60	70	70	180	210	250	230	260	300	320	300	250
Stroud	80	80	100	100	130	140	140	130	160	150	190	170	150
Taunton	140	150	160	170	210	240	220	240	280	300	310	260	270
Teignbridge	80	80	90	110	140	200	240	350	360	380	380	440	400
Tewkesbury	60	70	70	80	80	110	110	100	120	170	170	180	200
Tiverton and Honiton	80	100	100	110	160	220	260	300	320	330	380	390	420
Torbay	70	100	120	140	160	160	180	210	190	200	270	240	260
Torridge and West Devon	80	100	100	130	160	210	290	320	340	360	390	410	420
Totnes	50	60	60	100	110	140	170	260	290	320	280	300	280
Truro and St. Austell	130	140	170	170	160	220	220	250	390	360	350	400	410
Wansdyke	100	100	80	90	100	70	80	80	130	190	210	210	200
Wells	110	120	130	120	150	180	180	190	200	260	230	240	250
West Dorset	80	90	120	160	180	240	240	330	370	360	350	380	410
Westbury	90	90	100	80	100	140	190	210	190	200	200	270	310
Weston-Super-Mare	120	140	130	150	160	180	210	220	260	240	260	280	310
Woodspring	70	80	90	110	130	130	160	150	190	190	190	190	200
Yeovil	130	130	120	130	160	140	180	200	210	270	270	300	240
¹ City technology colleges are excluded for 1997, 1998 and 1999, from the parliamentary constituency breakdown. They are included in the regional totals.
² A small number of teaching assistants are included in the south-west region total but excluded from the parliamentary breakdown because the constituency of some institutions is unknown.
Note:
Figures are rounded to the nearest 10.
Source:
School Census

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

505 c474-80W; 313165

Session

2009-10

Subjects

Classroom assistants Teachers South West

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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