Schools: Rural Areas Matthew Taylor To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many schools defined as rural there were in each county in each year since 1997. Jim Knight The following table shows the number of maintained (a) primary schools designated as rural in 2007 and 2008 and (b) secondary schools currently defined as rural in each county in England. Rural primary schools were first designated in 2007 by a special Order. The Order was updated in 2008 when the Department adopted the common classification system developed by the Office of National Statistics. We do not have a record of schools defined as rural prior to 2007. Rural secondary schools are not designated. They are identified by the classification on the Department's register of schools. Once the register has been updated we do not retain the historic data and we are only able to provide the current number of secondary schools defined as rural. ------------------------------------------- | |2007 |2008 |2009| ------------------------------------------- |Barnet |1 |0 |0 | ------------------------------------------- |Barnsley |10 |19 |2 | ------------------------------------------- |Bath and NE Somerset |19 |23 |1 | ------------------------------------------- |Bedfordshire |78 |79 |17 | ------------------------------------------- |Blackburn with Darwin |4 |5 |0 | ------------------------------------------- |Blackpool |1 |0 |0 | ------------------------------------------- |Bolton |3 |4 |1 | ------------------------------------------- |Bracknell Forest |2 |2 |0 | ------------------------------------------- |Bradford |18 |18 |2 | ------------------------------------------- |Bromley |3 |3 |1 | ------------------------------------------- |Buckinghamshire |91 |89 |5 | ------------------------------------------- |Bury |2 |3 |0 | ------------------------------------------- |Calderdale |28 |28 |1 | ------------------------------------------- |Cambridgeshire |131 |124 |15 | ------------------------------------------- |Cheshire |104 |100 |5 | ------------------------------------------- |Cornwall |169 |178 |15 | ------------------------------------------- |Cumbria |181 |188 |19 | ------------------------------------------- |Darlington |5 |5 |1 | ------------------------------------------- |Derbyshire |173 |174 |12 | ------------------------------------------- |Devon |231 |230 |17 | ------------------------------------------- |Doncaster |18 |18 |2 | ------------------------------------------- |Dorset |82 |84 |16 | ------------------------------------------- |Durham |119 |118 |11 | ------------------------------------------- |East Riding of Yorkshire|88 |90 |8 | ------------------------------------------- |East Sussex |73 |73 |7 | ------------------------------------------- |Enfield |1 |1 |0 | ------------------------------------------- |Essex |163 |170 |11 | ------------------------------------------- |Gateshead |9 |8 |1 | ------------------------------------------- |Gloucestershire |124 |122 |12 | ------------------------------------------- |Halton |3 |3 |0 | ------------------------------------------- |Hampshire |130 |131 |10 | ------------------------------------------- |Hartlepool |3 |3 |0 | ------------------------------------------- |Herefordshire |61 |62 |8 | ------------------------------------------- |Hertfordshire |82 |82 |5 | ------------------------------------------- |Hillingdon |2 |2 |0 | ------------------------------------------- |Isle of Wight |21 |22 |3 | ------------------------------------------- |Isles of Scilly |1 |1 |0 | ------------------------------------------- |Kent |189 |184 |10 | ------------------------------------------- |Kingston-Upon-Hull |0 |0 |1 | ------------------------------------------- |Kirklees |30 |29 |3 | ------------------------------------------- |Lancashire |153 |180 |13 | ------------------------------------------- |Leeds |15 |21 |2 | ------------------------------------------- |Leicester, City of |1 |1 |0 | ------------------------------------------- |Leicestershire |110 |110 |16 | ------------------------------------------- |Lincolnshire |188 |186 |25 | ------------------------------------------- |Medway |11 |11 |1 | ------------------------------------------- |Milton Keynes |14 |15 |2 | ------------------------------------------- |Newcastle-upon-Tyne |1 |1 |0 | ------------------------------------------- |Norfolk |227 |247 |27 | ------------------------------------------- |North East Lincolnshire |4 |4 |1 | ------------------------------------------- |North Lincolnshire |40 |40 |7 | ------------------------------------------- |North Somerset |26 |22 |2 | ------------------------------------------- |North Tyneside |4 |4 |1 | ------------------------------------------- |North Yorkshire |233 |244 |21 | ------------------------------------------- |Northamptonshire |118 |130 |13 | ------------------------------------------- |Northumberland |83 |89 |25 | ------------------------------------------- |Nottingham City |2 |0 |0 | ------------------------------------------- |Nottinghamshire |111 |107 |11 | ------------------------------------------- |Oldham |10 |10 |1 | ------------------------------------------- |Oxfordshire |127 |126 |11 | ------------------------------------------- |Peterborough |9 |11 |2 | ------------------------------------------- |Redcar and Cleveland |17 |16 |3 | ------------------------------------------- |Rochdale |1 |1 |1 | ------------------------------------------- |Rotherham |16 |15 |1 | ------------------------------------------- |Rutland |15 |17 |3 | ------------------------------------------- |Sandwell |1 |0 |0 | ------------------------------------------- |Sefton |1 |1 |0 | ------------------------------------------- |Sheffield |3 |3 |1 | ------------------------------------------- |Shropshire |99 |103 |12 | ------------------------------------------- |Solihull |9 |9 |1 | ------------------------------------------- |Somerset |155 |154 |18 | ------------------------------------------- |South Gloucestershire |21 |20 |0 | ------------------------------------------- |Southend-on-Sea |2 |0 |0 | ------------------------------------------- |St Helens |6 |6 |1 | ------------------------------------------- |Staffordshire |110 |105 |11 | ------------------------------------------- |Stockport |1 |2 |0 | ------------------------------------------- |Stockton-on-Tees |3 |3 |0 | ------------------------------------------- |Stoke-on-Trent |1 |0 |1 | ------------------------------------------- |Suffolk |144 |147 |26 | ------------------------------------------- |Sunderland |1 |1 |0 | ------------------------------------------- |Surrey |58 |57 |4 | ------------------------------------------- |Swindon |11 |13 |2 | ------------------------------------------- |Tameside |1 |1 |2 | ------------------------------------------- |Telford And Wrekin |9 |8 |0 | ------------------------------------------- |Thurrock |7 |7 |1 | ------------------------------------------- |Torbay |1 |1 |0 | ------------------------------------------- |Wakefield |28 |28 |2 | ------------------------------------------- |Walsall |1 |1 |0 | ------------------------------------------- |Warrington |17 |17 |2 | ------------------------------------------- |Warwickshire |79 |80 |11 | ------------------------------------------- |West Berkshire |38 |38 |4 | ------------------------------------------- |West Sussex |87 |86 |6 | ------------------------------------------- |Wigan |0 |9 |1 | ------------------------------------------- |Wiltshire |139 |132 |11 | ------------------------------------------- |Windsor and Maidenhead |11 |11 |2 | ------------------------------------------- |Wirral |2 |2 |0 | ------------------------------------------- |Wokingham |13 |14 |2 | ------------------------------------------- |Worcestershire |93 |91 |10 | ------------------------------------------- |York, City of |13 |13 |0 | ------------------------------------------- |Total |5,154|5,246|542 | ------------------------------------------- |1 Excludes academies | | | | -------------------------------------------