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Written question asked by James Frith (Labour) on Friday, 13 October 2017, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 17 October 2017. It was answered by Nick Gibb (Conservative) on Monday, 23 October 2017 on behalf of the Department for Education.

Class Sizes

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average class size was in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in (i) Bury North constituency and (ii) the UK in each of the last seven years.

Answer

Average class size figures for state-funded schools in England are calculated and published annually in the statistical first releases available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers.

A national summary of average class sizes for Key Stages 1 and 2 and secondary is in the link to national tables, tables 6a and 6b respectively.

A summary at local authority and regional level is only available for Key Stages 1 and 2 and is in the link to local authority and regional tables, table 11.

Data is not summarised by parliamentary constituency, but data for each school providing average class sizes for Key Stages 1 and 2, where appropriate, and overall is available via the link to underlying tables for each year then the file ‘…Schools_Classes_UD’. The figures can be filtered by school phase, local authority and parliamentary constituency.

A UK figure is not available. As education is a devolved matter, statistics on schools are published separately by the four administrations.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
107669
Session
2017-19
Subjects
Class sizes Primary education Secondary education
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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