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Class Size

Volume 457: debated on Monday 19 February 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to the answer of 22 January 2006, Official Report, column 1467W, on class sizes, which schools have class sizes of more than 50 pupils. (118862)

The information requested is shown in the following tables.

Maintained secondary schools: number of classes with 50 or more pupils in year group 10 and 11 taught by one teacher, January 2006—Schools in England

LA name

School name

Number of classes with 50 or more pupils

Number of pupils

Number of support staff

Class activity

Walsall

Barr Beacon Language College

1

119

0

PE or Games

Walsall

The Streetly School

1

57

0

PE or Games

Somerset

The Kings of Wessex Community School

1

108

0

PE or Games

Lancashire

Lostock Hall Community High School and Arts College

1

53

1

Humanities

Cornwall

Wadebridge School

1

59

0

PE or Games

Sefton

Litherland High School

1

51

0

PE or Games

Birmingham

Sheldon Heath Community Arts College

1

54

1

PE or Games

Notes: 1. Includes middle schools as deemed

2. Classes taught during a single selected period on the day of the census in January. Source:

Schools Census.

Maintained secondary schools: number of classes with 50 or more pupils inyear group 10 and 11 taught by two or more teachers, January 2006—Schools in England

LA name

School name

Number of classes with 50 or more pupils

Number of pupils

Number of teachers

Numbers of support staff

Class activity

Kent

Hugh Christie Technology College

1

62

2

0

Technology, IT or Computing

Derbyshire

St. Mary's Catholic High School

1

200

9

1

PE or Games

Reading

Reading School

1

126

5

0

PE or Games

Barnet

Hendon School

1

106

4

0

PE or Games

Lancashire

St Bede's Catholic High School

1

57

2

0

PE or Games

Lancashire

Accrington St. Christopher's Church of England High School

1

88

4

0

PE or Games

Brighton and Hove

Cardinal Newman Catholic School

1

106

5

0

PE or Games

Hertfordshire

The Chauncy School

1

108

7

0

PE or Games

Northumberland

Ashington Community High School

1

155

5

0

PE or Games

Shropshire

William Brookes School

1

79

4

0

PE or Games

Hampshire

Kings' School

1

79

3

0

PE or Games

Lewisham

Forest Hill School

1

199

6

0

PE or Games

Kingston Upon Hull, City of

Sydney Smith School

1

64

2

0

PE or Games

North Yorkshire

Upper Wharfedale School

1

61

3

0

Education

Cornwall

Saltash net Community School

1

98

4

0

PE or Games

Hertfordshire

Meridian School

1

51

2

0

PE or Games

Bath and North East Somerset

Ralph Allen School

1

88

3

0

Other

Staffordshire

Ounsdale High School

1

104

4

0

PE or Games

Leeds

Priesthorpe School

1

106

5

0

PE or Games

Kent

The Harvey Grammar School

1

81

4

0

PE or Games

Staffordshire

Endon High School

1

86

4

0

PE or Games

Hertfordshire

Roundwood Park School

1

182

7

0

PE or Games

Kent

Holmesdale Technology College

1

107

5

0

PE or Games

Waltham Forest

Norlington School for Boys

1

115

5

0

PE or Games

Lincolnshire

Birkbeck School and Community Arts College

1

55

2

1

PE or Games

Waltham Forest

Tom Hood School

1

89

4

0

PE or Games

Devon

Braunton School and Community College

1

78

3

0

PE or Games

Salford

Wentworth High School

1

55

4

0

PE or Games

East Sussex

Thomas Peacocke Community College

1

57

2

0

PE or Games

Leicestershire

The Beauchamp College

1

57

2

0

PE or Games

North Yorkshire

Thirsk School and Sixth Form College

1

88

4

0

PE or Games

North Tyneside

Monkseaton Community High School

1

53

3

0

PE or Games

Wakefield

Crofton High School—Specialists in Maths and Computing

1

63

3

0

PE or Games

Oldham

The Radclyffe School

1

55

2

0

PE or Games

Essex

The Ramsey School

1

71

3

1

PE or Games

Wakefield

Castleford High School Technology College

1

65

3

0

PE or Games

Lincolnshire

The Aveland High School

1

95

4

1

Science

Sutton

Greenshaw High School

1

110

5

0

PE or Games

Gloucestershire

Sir Thomas Rich's School

1

113

6

0

PE or Games

West Berkshire

St Bartholomew's School

2

114

6

0

PE or Games

South Gloucestershire

Martwood School

2

122

5

0

PE or Games

Tower Hamlets

St Paul's Way Community School

2

475

20

0

Mathematics or Numeracy, Science

North Yorkshire

Tadcaster Grammar School

2

121

4

0

PE or Games

Rochdale

Siddal Moor Sports College

2

143

6

0

PE or Games

Stoke-on-Trent

Blurton High School

2

114

4

0

PE or Games

Norfolk

Hellesdon High School

2

130

6

0

PE or Games

Hillingdon

Mellow Lane School

3

423

19

0

Personal, Social or Leisure, Education/Science/English, Literacy or Reading

Note:1. Includes middle schools as deemed. 2. Classes taught during a single selected period on the day of the census in January. Source: Schools Census