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Teachers: City of York

Answer

York became a new local authority on 1 April 1997 and therefore the information requested is not available for 1996.The information requested for full-time equivalent teachers, teaching assistants and support staff in 1997, 2001 to 2009 is published in tables 19, 25 and 26 of the Statistical First Release (SFR) 'School Workforce in England (including local authority level figures) January 2009 (Revised)' published on 29 September 2009. The SFR is available at the following web link:"http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000874/Tables19to27v2.xls"The equivalent information requested for 1998 to 2000 is published in tables 18, 23 and 24 of the Statistical First Release (SFR) 'School Workforce in England (including pupil: teacher ratios and pupil: adult ratios) January 2007 (Revised)' published on 27 September 2007. The SFR is available at the following web link:"http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000743/SFR29_2007_FinalTables18-25.xls"The following table provides the pupil teacher ratios in local authority maintained primary and secondary schools in York local authority, in each January, 1997 to 2009.

Pupil:teacher ratios (PTRs)¹ in local authority maintained primary and secondary schools, Years: each January, 1997 to 2009, Coverage: York local authority
	Primary	Secondary
January
1997	24.3	16.3
1998	24 6	16.2
1999	23.5	16.7
2000	24.6	18.4
2001	22.9	16.6
2002	22.0	16.0
2003	22.0	16.0
2004	22.7	16.0
2005	23.0	15.6
2006	21.7	15.9
2007	21.7	16.3
2008	21.4	15.7
2009	21.6	15.7
¹ The PTR is calculated by dividing the total FTE number of pupils on roll in schools by the total FTE number of qualified teachers regularly employed in schools.
Source:
School Census

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

507 c918W; 322114

Session

2009-10

Subjects

Classroom assistants Teachers York

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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