Class Sizes: Reading Berkshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families which schools in the Reading Local Education Authority area have class sizes of more than (a) 50 pupils, (b) 40 pupils and (c) 30 pupils. (249402)

The requested information is given in the following table.

*Classes as taught*¹*: Schools in Reading local authority by class size—position in January 2008—Reading local authority area*
School name	Number of classes of size 31 to 40 taught by one teacher	Number of classes of size 41 or more taught by one teacher
Caversham Primary School	1	0
Oxford Road Community School	1	0
The Ridgeway Primary School	1	0
Katesgrove Primary School	1	0
Micklands Primary School	1	0
St. John’s CofE (Aided) Primary School	1	0
St. Mary and All Saints Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School	1	0
Reading Girls’ School	1	0
Redlands Primary School	2	0
St. Michael’s Primary School	2	0
Upcroft Primary School	2	0
Manor Primary School	2	0
Blessed Hugh Faringdon Catholic School	2	0
Churchend Primary School	3	0
St. Anne’s Catholic Primary School	3	0
English Martyrs’ Catholic Primary School	3	0
Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre	3	0
Park Lane Primary School	5	0
George Palmer Primary School	5	0
Kendrick Girls’ Grammar School	6	0
Prospect College	8	0
¹ Classes as taught during a single selected period in each school on the day of the Census in January. Source: School Census

Volume 486: debated on Wednesday 21 January 2009