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Secondary Education: Teachers

Answer

Information on the school workforce, including pupil to adult and pupil to teacher ratios at national, regional and Local Authority level, is published in the ‘School workforce in England’ statistical publication, which is available at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.

The table below provides the pupil to adult ratio and the pupil to teacher ratio for all state funded schools in Lancaster and Fleetwood constituency for academic years 2019/20 to 2022/23.

Pupil to adult and pupil to teacher ratios for schools in Lancaster and Fleetwood constituency, by academic year 2019/20 to 2022/23¹

Academic year	Pupil to adult ratio2,4	Pupil to teacher ratio3,4
2019/20	11.7	18.9
2020/21	11.7	18.9
2021/22	11.5	18.7
2022/23	11.1	18.4

Source: School Workforce Census.

1. Workforce data as at November and pupils data as at the following January. For instance, 2019/20 relates to November 2019 workforce and January 2020 pupils.

2. Pupil to adult ratio includes teachers and support staff (excluding administrative and auxiliary staff).

3. Pupil to teacher ratio includes all teachers.

4. The ratios are calculated using pupil numbers taken from the publication, ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’, which is available at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

190683

Session

2022-23

Subjects

Pupils Teachers Secondary education Ratios

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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