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Written question asked by Colleen Fletcher (Labour) on Thursday, 3 December 2020, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 7 December 2020. It was answered by Nick Gibb (Conservative) on Friday, 11 December 2020 on behalf of the Department for Education.

Class Sizes

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the average class size in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in (i) Coventry North East Constituency, (ii) Coventry, (iii) the West Midlands and (iv) England.

Answer

Average class size statistics are contained in the National Statistics release ‘Schools pupils and their characteristics’ and available at the following link: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics.

In the 'Download associated files' section, the file ‘Class sizes – state-funded primary and secondary schools’ has this information at national, regional and local authority level. The file ‘school level underlying data – class sizes’ has school level information that can be filtered at parliamentary constituency level. The release also has a function to create bespoke tables. For convenience, this link provides a table for Coventry, the West Midlands and England: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/3576031b-f586-4e21-8f12-f4650fe80205.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
124765
Session
2019-21
Subjects
Class sizes Primary education Secondary education
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
View this Written question on www.parliament.uk