Class Sizes

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To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the average class size in secondary schools was in (a) Dorset and (b) Poole in each year since 1992; and if he will make a statement. [126440]

The available information is shown in the table.

Maintained secondary schools¹ average size of classes taught by one teacher²
	Position in January each year 1992 to 2003⁵
	Secondary Schools
	Dorset LEA³	Dorset LEA⁴	Pode LEA⁴
1992	21.8	⁶—	⁶—
1993	21.4	⁶—	⁶—
1994	21.5	⁶—	⁶—
1995	21.8	⁶—	⁶—
1996	22.0	⁶—	⁶—
1997	21.8	⁶—	⁶—
1998	⁶—	22.5	20.5
1999	⁶—	22.0	20.8
2000	⁶—	22.6	21.4
2001	⁶—	22.8	20.9
2002	⁶—	22.7	20.2
2003⁵	⁶—	22.0	20.9
¹ Includes middle schools as deemed.
² Classes as taught during a single selected period in each school on the day of the census in January.
³ Before local government reorganisation Dorset LEA incorporated Pode LEA Bournemouth LEA and rest of Dorset.
⁴ After local government reorganisation.
⁵ provisional
⁶ not available

Source:

Annual Schools' Census

Volume 409: debated on Friday 18 July 2003