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Dept for Education and Skills

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Mr. Hendry: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many children there were in each school year in England in each of the last five years for which figures are available. [17385] Mr. Timms: Information on the number of pupils in each year group is not collected centrally. Information on the age of pupils in schools is shown in the table. Headcount of pupils in schools{ 1} in England _________________________________________________________________________________________________. January 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 Aged under 2 3,883 3,295 2,832 2,433 2,353 2 years old 50,520 52,355 49,417 46,420 45,605 3 years old 326,828 324,541 326,164 327,582 316,008 4 years old 593,262 600,166 615,016 614,141 626,985 5 years old 613,863 628,723 628,864 652,330 656,607 6 years old 629,072 629,471 652,865 657,275 650,485 7 years old 630,628 653,860 658,063 650,305 640,571 8 years old 654,553 658,754 651,415 641,342 649,377 9 years old 659,642 652,153 642,157 649,990 630,204 10 years old 653,452 643,546 650,710 630,884 616,153 11 years old 643,368 650,688 630,812 616,283 613,457 12 years old 651,947 631,726 617,418 613,980 591,230 13 years old 632,577 618,386 614,612 591,595 592,799 14 years old 618,397 614,564 591,640 592,154 587,290 15 years old 605,344 581,902 581,256 575,766 587,114 16 years old 212,121 211,535 207,127 210,403 210,035 17 years old 172,282 167,541 167,622 166,169 158,458 18 years old 19,254 19,573 19,492 18,593 17,272 19 years old 3,126 3,036 2,994 2,937 2,961 Total all ages 8,374,119 8,345,815 8,310,476 8,260,582 8,194,964 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Includes maintained and independent schools

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

17385; 375 c780W

Session

2001-02

Subjects

Children Pupils Population Schools Young people

Contains statistics

Yes

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