No schools in Hendon have been placed in or removed from special measures in the last 12 months.
We expect local authorities to take early action to prevent school failure, and prompt and decisive action to tackle it where it occurs. Our ambition is for every school to be a good school providing high-quality education.
The following table provides the full-time equivalent number of teaching assistants, support staff, and teachers employed in maintained nursery, primary, secondary, special schools and pupil referral units in Hendon constituency, January 1997 and 2006.
1997 2006 Teaching assistants 90 400 Support staff1 290 620 Teachers 980 980 1 Includes teaching assistants, special needs support staff, minority ethnic pupil support staff, secretaries, bursars, other admin/clerical staff, technicians, matrons/nurses/medical staff, child care staff and other education support staff. Note: Figures are rounded to the nearest 10. Source: Annual School Census (ASC)
The information requested is shown in the following table:
1997 20063 Hendon parliamentary constituency 28.0 26.5 Barnet local authority 27.9 27.0 England 26.9 25.6 1 Includes middle schools as deemed. 2 Classes as taught during the one selected period in each school on the day of the census in January. 3 Includes reception classes.
The numbers of pupil achieving level 4 or above at key stage 2 are shown in the following table:
Subject Hendon1 England1 1997 20062 1997 20062 English 70 82 63 79 Mathematics 69 80 62 76 Science 68 87 69 87 English, mathematics and science 57 74 3— 74 1 Figure for Hendon is based on maintained schools only. England figures relate to all schools including those independent schools taking part in Key Stage 2 tests. 2 2006 figures are based on revised data 3 Figure is not available
Primary standards as measured by the results from the key stage 2 national curriculum tests in 2006 are at their highest-ever levels. Since 1997 there has been a 16 percentage point increase in the proportion of 11-year-old pupils in England achieving the target level 4 or above in English and a 14 percentage point increase in the proportion achieving the target level 4 or above in mathematics. Through the work of the Primary National Strategy we have enabled around 95,000 more 11-year-olds to master literacy and 83,000 more to master numeracy this year compared with 1997.
Although we have made significant progress, we are redoubling our efforts to help the one in five 11-year-olds who are still not reaching the standard required of their age in literacy and mathematics. That is why we are renewing our literacy strategy with phonics at the heart of the teaching of reading and renewing our numeracy strategy with more demanding standards of mental arithmetic.
Direct payments to head teachers are paid as School Standards Grant (SSG) and School Standards Grant (Personalisation). The grants are paid to local authorities, which must pass the money straight on to schools, calculated on a formula set by the Government. The allocations of SSG and SSG (Personalisation) for each school in Hendon for 2006-07 are set out as follows. Figures for 2007-08 are not available. For England as a whole, SSG and SSG (Personalisation) will rise from £1.232 billion in 2006-07 to £1.557 billion in 2007-08.