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Written question asked by Vicky Foxcroft (Labour) on Monday, 27 November 2017, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 29 November 2017. It was answered by Nick Gibb (Conservative) on Tuesday, 5 December 2017 on behalf of the Department for Education.

Class Sizes

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of average class size in schools in (a) England, (b) London and (c) Lewisham Deptford constituency in each year since 2010.

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 national tables document for each year, 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 local authority and regional tables document for each year, 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 opening the underlying tables document for each year then the file ‘…Schools_Classes_UD’. The figures can be filtered by parliamentary constituency, school phase and local authority.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
115730
Session
2017-19
Subjects
Class sizes
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
View this Written question on www.parliament.uk