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Dept for Education and Employment

Answer

Mr. Michael J. Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many infant classes had over 30 pupils in (a) 1997, (b) 1998, (c) 1999 and (d) 2000 in the City of Worcester. [120594] Ms Estelle Morris: Information on key stage one class sizes collected in January for the Parliamentary constituency of Worcester is shown in the following table. Provisional national estimates of key state one class sizes for January 2000 were recently published in a Statistical First Release `Class sizes in maintained schools in England: January 2000 (15/2000)' on 12 April 2000. Class size information broken down by local education authority area is also available from the House of Commons Library. National figures for Infant class sizes in September 1999 were published in Statistical First Release `Infant class sizes in England (2/2000)' on 21 January 2000. Number of key stage 1 classes taught by one teacher with more than 30 pupils in maintained primary schools in the Parliamentary constituency of Worcester: 1997-2000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Position as at January Number of key stage 1 classes All classes Percentage with more than 30 pupils 2000{1} 12 112 10.7 1999 13 116 11.2 1998 28 111 25.2 1997 21 112 18.8 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Provisional

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

349 c293W;349 c292-3W; 120594

Session

1999-00

Subjects

Class sizes Primary education Worcester

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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