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Class Sizes: Lincolnshire

Volume 477: debated on Tuesday 17 June 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) what the average (a) pupil to teacher and (b) pupil to adult ratio at key stage 3 was in secondary schools in (i) Cleethorpes constituency, (ii) North East Lincolnshire local education authority and (iii) North Lincolnshire local education authority in the most recent period for which figures are available; (211841)

(2) what the average (a) pupil to teacher and (b) pupil to adult ratio at key stage 1 was in maintained primary schools in each year since 1997 in (i) Cleethorpes constituency, (ii) North East Lincolnshire local education authority and (iii) North Lincolnshire local education authority.

The information is not collected centrally.

Primary and secondary within school pupil teacher ratios in local authority maintained schools are readily available. Figures for Cleethorpes constituency, North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire local authorities and England for each year requested are provided in the following table:

Primary and secondary within school pupil teacher ratios1 in local authority maintained schools, Cleethorpes constituency, North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire LA's and England, 1997 to 2007

Cleethorpes constituency

North East Lincolnshire LA

North Lincolnshire LA

England

Secondary

2007

17.1

17.4

17.0

16.5

Primary

1997

25.2

25.0

24.6

23.4

1998

25.6

25.9

25.1

23.7

1999

24.6

24.9

24.0

23.5

2000

24.3

23.9

24.2

23.3

2001

23.8

23.4

23.9

22.9

2002

23.3

23.2

23.7

22.5

2003

22.9

22.9

24.2

22.6

2004

23.0

23.2

23.5

22.7

2005

23.5

22.5

24.0

22.5

2006

22.9

22.2

23.7

22.0

2007

22.2

21.9

23.9

21.8

1 The within school PTR is calculated by dividing the total FTE number of pupils on role in schools by the total FTE number of qualified teachers regularly employed in schools. Source: School Census.