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Private Education: Greater London

Volume 489: debated on Tuesday 17 March 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families with reference to the answer of 11 October 2007, Official Report, column 688W, on private education: Greater London, what the equivalent figures are for 2008. (263413)

[holding answer 13 March 2009]: The requested information is shown in the table:

Independent schools1: number and percentage of pupils aged 5 to 10 and 11 to 152,position in January 2008, each London borough

Pupils aged 5 to 10

Pupils aged 11 to 15

Number

Percentage3

Number

Percentage3

England

198,480

5.6

233,710

7.4

London

52,570

9.8

43,740

10.2

Inner London

26,800

13.4

20,020

13.9

Camden

3,570

28.9

1,820

19.2

City of London

410

69.4

1,110

100.0

Hackney

3,470

20.7

1,470

16.4

Hammersmith and Fulham

2,180

22.9

2,180

27.6

Haringey

840

4.9

980

8.0

Islington

270

2.4

150

1.9

Kensington and Chelsea

5,430

50.3

2,540

45.4

Lambeth

930

5.7

430

4.7

Lewisham

620

3.6

820

6.6

New ham

340

1.5

320

1.7

Southwark

1,430

7.7

2,330

15.8

Tower Hamlets

230

1.4

780

5.6

Wandsworth

4,390

25.0

2,380

19.4

Westminster

2,680

24.1

2,720

27.8

Outer London

25,780

7.6

23,720

8.3

Barking and Dagenham

60

0.4

10

0.1

Barnet

2,320

10.2

2,470

12.7

Bexley

520

3.1

0

0.0

Brent

750

3.9

730

4.8

Bromley

1,820

8.4

1,550

7.9

Croydon

2,350

9.2

2,970

13.5

Ealing

2,000

8.9

1,930

11.7

Enfield

900

3.9

430

2.2

Greenwich

1,140

6.6

1,030

7.8

Harrow

1,370

8.7

2,160

16.5

Havering

490

3.0

140

0.9

Hillingdon

1,620

8.1

1,370

8.2

Hounslow

640

4.2

300

2.2

Kingston upon Thames

1,310

12.8

1,540

17.0

Merton

1,630

13.0

1,220

13.3

Redbridge

2,150

10.2

830

4.8

Richmond upon Thames

3,410

24.6

3,620

34.0

Sutton

820

6.6

510

3.7

Waltham Forest

480

2.7

940

6.6

1 Excludes city technology colleges and academies.

2 Age as at 31 August in previous year (start of academic year).

3 Number of pupils in independent schools expressed as a percentage of number of pupils in same age group across all schools (excludes dually registered pupils).

Note:

National and regional totals may not appear to equal the sum of the component parts because numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10.

Source:

School Census