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Pupils (Statistics)

Volume 112: debated on Wednesday 18 March 1987

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asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what are the proportions of pupils in comprehensive, secondary modern and grammar schools in each local education authority.

The proportion of pupils in comprehensive, secondary modern and grammar schools in each local education authority in England in January 1986 was as follows:

LEAPupils in comprehensive schools as a proportion of all pupilsPupils in secondary modern schools as a proportion of all pupilsPupils in grammar schools as a proportion of all pupils
percentagepercentagepercentage
South Tyneside100·00·00·0
Sunderland100·00·00·0
Isles of Scilly100·00·00·0
Inner London94·20·00·0
Avon97·60·02·4
Bedfordshire100·00·00·0
Berkshire84·18·37·5
Buckinghamshire27·041·931·0
Cambridgeshire100·00·00·0
Cheshire100·00·00·0
Cleveland100·00·00·0
Cornwall100·00·00·0
Cumbria100·00·00·0
Derbyshire100·00·00·0
Devon75·714·37·1
Dorset59·313·410·0
Durham100·00·00·0
East Sussex100·00·00·0
Essex93·10·65·1
Gloucestershire71·313·415·3
Hampshire100·00·00·0
Hereford and Worcester100·00·00·0
Hertfordshire100·00·00·0
Humberside100·00·00·0
Isle of Wight100·00·00·0
Kent45·134·917·4
Lancashire91·15·83·2
Leicestershire100·00·00·0
Lincolnshire41·238·720·2
Norfolk99·10·90·0
North Yorkshire93·03·73·3
Northamptonshire100·00·00·0
Northumberland100·00·00·0
Nottinghamshire100·00·00·0
Oxfordshire100·00·00·0
Shropshire95·02·92·0
Somerset99·30·00·0
Staffordshire100·00·00·0
Suffolk100·00·00·0
Surrey98·80·00·0
Warwickshire67·824·97·3
West Sussex100·00·00·0
Wiltshire90·06·33·7
Barking100·00·00·0
Barnet93·50·06·5
Bexley44·819·611·9
Brent100·00·00·0
Bromley93·50·06·5
Croydon100·00·00·0
Ealing100·00·00·0
Enfield93·30·06·7
Haringey100·00·00·0
Harrow100·00·00·0
Havering100·00·00·0
Hillingdon97·82·20·0
Hounslow100·00·00·0
Kingston Upon Thames3·477·419·2
Merton100·00·00·0
Newham100·00·00·0
Redbridge90·80·09·2
Richmond Upon Thames100·00·00·0
Sutton30·944·524·6
Waltham Forest100·00·00·0
LEAPupils in comprehensive schools as a proportion of all pupilsPupils in secondary modern schools as a proportion of all pupilsPupils in grammar schools as a proportion of all pupils
percentagepercentagepercentage
Birmingham92·70·07·3
Coventry100·00·00·0
Dudley100·00·00·0
Sandwell100·00·00·0
Solihull100·00·00·0
Walsall94·60·05·4
Wolverhampton97·20·02·8
Knowsley100·00·00·0
Liverpool96·20·30·0
St. Helens100·00·00·0
Sefton100·00·00·0
Wirral63·719·916·4
Bolton100·00·00·0
Bury100·00·00·0
Manchester100·00·00·0
Oldham100·00·00·0
Rochdale100·00·00·0
Salford100·00·00·0
Stockport100·00·00·0
Tameside100·00·00·0
Trafford5·158·936·0
Wigan100·00·00·0
Barnsley100·00·00·0
Doncaster100·00·00·0
Rotherham100·00·00·0
Sheffield100·00·00·0
Bradford100·00·00·0
Calderdale70·615·414·0
Kirklees94·04·02·1
Leeds100·00·00·0
Wakefield100·00·00·0
Gateshead100·00·00·0
Newcastle Upon Tyne100·00·00·0
North Tyneside100·00·00·0

Note: In some LEAs there were also a number of secondary school pupils who attended technical or other secondary schools. These have been excluded from the table above, hence, in these cases the sum of the percentages does not add to 100.