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Gifted Children: Staffordshire

Volume 470: debated on Tuesday 22 January 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many children in (a) Tamworth constituency and (b) Staffordshire County Council area have been identified as gifted and talented since 2001. (179499)

The available information is given in the tables. Information on gifted and talented pupils was collected for the first time via the school census in 2006.

Maintained primary and secondary schools1, number and percentage of gifted and talented pupils2, position as at summer each year 2006 and 2007, Tamworth parliamentary constituency and Staffordshire local authority

2006

Tamworth parliamentary constituency

Staffordshire local authority

England3

Number of pupils2

Number of gifted and talented pupils2

Percentage of gifted and talented pupils4

Number of pupils2

Number of gifted and talented pupils2

Percentage of gifted and talented pupils4

Number of pupils2

Number of gifted and talented pupils2

Percentage of gifted and talented pupils4

Maintained primary schools

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Maintained secondary schools5

5,878

395

6.7

60,645

4,697

7.7

3,294,710

373,160

11.3

Total

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

2007

Tamworth parliamentary constituency

Staffordshire local authority

England3

Number of pupils2

Number of gifted and talented pupils2

Percentage of gifted and talented pupils4

Number of pupils2

Number of gifted and talented pupils2

Percentage of gifted and talented pupils4

Number of pupils2

Number of gifted and talented pupils2

Percentage of gifted and talented pupils4

Maintained primary schools

7,740

223

2.9

62,845

1,522

2.4

4,137,620

302,850

7.3

Maintained secondary schools5

5,677

480

8.5

59,671

5,629

9.4

3,256,370

425,830

13.1

Total

13,417

703

5.2

122,516

7,151

5.8

7,393,990

728,680

9.9

n/a = Not available.

1 Includes middle schools as deemed.

2 Includes pupils with sole and dual (main) registration.

3 National figures have been rounded to the nearest 10.

4 The number of gifted and talented pupils expressed as a percentage of the total number of pupils.

5 Excludes city technology colleges and academies.

Source:

School Census.