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Teachers: South West

Answer

The following table provides the headcount number and percentage of all regular teachers[1] in service in primary schools in each constituency in the South West with a degree in a science subject in November 2013. This is the latest information available.

Name of Constituency	Number of teachers With science degree[2]	Number of teachers with a qualification recorded[3]	Percentage with a science Qualification	Confidence interval[4]		Percentage of teachers with qualification recorded
Bath	24	319	7.5	+/-	2.9	96.1
Bournemouth East	36	336	10.7	+/-	3.3	94.9
Bournemouth West	33	354	9.3	+/-	3.0	98.3
Bridgwater and West Somerset	32	390	8.2	+/-	2.7	97.5
Bristol East	31	395	7.8	+/-	2.7	92.9
Bristol North West	54	466	11.6	+/-	2.9	92.8
Bristol South	43	484	8.9	+/-	2.5	93.8
Bristol West	45	423	10.6	+/-	2.9	89.1
Camborne and Redruth	25	343	7.3	+/-	2.8	91.5
Central Devon	45	411	10.9	+/-	3.0	97.2
Cheltenham	37	396	9.3	+/-	2.9	99.7
Chippenham	48	460	10.4	+/-	2.8	95.4
Christchurch	18	212	8.5	+/-	3.8	97.7
Devizes	44	426	10.3	+/-	2.9	95.5
East Devon	36	374	9.6	+/-	3.0	98.4
Exeter	43	406	10.6	+/-	3.0	99.0
Filton and Bradley Stoke	40	419	9.5	+/-	2.8	97.9
Forest of Dean	33	385	8.6	+/-	2.8	96.0
Gloucester	46	546	8.4	+/-	2.3	96.6
Kingswood	35	392	8.9	+/-	2.8	98.7
Mid Dorset and North Poole	27	273	9.9	+/-	3.5	96.8
Newton Abbot	34	341	10.0	+/-	3.2	97.7
North Cornwall	42	382	11.0	+/-	3.1	93.4
North Devon	57	455	12.5	+/-	3.0	96.4
North Dorset	34	371	9.2	+/-	2.9	97.6
North East Somerset	44	416	10.6	+/-	3.0	96.1
North Somerset	47	381	12.3	+/-	3.3	93.8
North Swindon	38	483	7.9	+/-	2.4	95.5
North Wiltshire	38	387	9.8	+/-	3.0	96.5
Plymouth, Moor View	35	448	7.8	+/-	2.5	97.2
Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport	31	360	8.6	+/-	2.9	94.2
Poole	30	313	9.6	+/-	3.3	99.1
Salisbury	37	366	10.1	+/-	3.1	94.6
Somerton and Frome	41	423	9.7	+/-	2.8	98.4
South Dorset	28	295	9.5	+/-	3.3	97.0
South East Cornwall	28	351	8.0	+/-	2.8	92.6
South Swindon	41	508	8.1	+/-	2.4	94.8
South West Devon	40	370	10.8	+/-	3.2	96.4
South West Wiltshire	41	408	10.0	+/-	2.9	93.2
St. Austell and Newquay	29	376	7.7	+/-	2.7	91.7
St. Ives	32	372	8.6	+/-	2.8	89.4
Stroud	53	480	11.0	+/-	2.8	96.0
Taunton Deane	48	484	9.9	+/-	2.7	99.8
Tewkesbury	41	432	9.5	+/-	2.8	96.9
The Cotswolds	32	429	7.5	+/-	2.5	96.8
Thornbury and Yate	48	351	13.7	+/-	3.6	98.9
Tiverton and Honiton	55	445	12.4	+/-	3.1	96.5
Torbay	34	399	8.5	+/-	2.7	96.8
Torridge and West Devon	40	406	9.9	+/-	2.9	97.6
Totnes	41	342	12.0	+/-	3.4	99.1
Truro and Falmouth	43	336	12.8	+/-	3.6	94.4
Wells	33	386	8.5	+/-	2.8	98.5
West Dorset	23	354	6.5	+/-	2.6	97.0
Weston-Super-Mare	45	434	10.4	+/-	2.9	93.5
Yeovil	44	449	9.8	+/-	2.8	98.5
Total South West	2,102	21,743	9.7	+/-	0.4	95.9
Total England	18,795	227,513	8.3	+/-	0.1	95.5

Source: School Workforce Census

[1] Includes qualified and unqualified teachers.

[2] Includes teachers with a first or higher science degree but excluding those with a science PGCE where no record of a science degree exists and those with a BEd in sciences.

[3] Those recorded with a qualification in any subject, (the total in the sample from which the rate is calculated).

[4] The range within which we can be 95% confident that the true value exists.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

220221

Session

2014-15

Subjects

Primary education Teachers Science South West

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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