Teachers: Retirement
(asked on 20th February 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teachers retired from (a) primary and (b) schools in Warwick and Leamington constituency in (i) 2012 and (ii) 2022.
Information on the school workforce, including the national number of teachers leaving service due to retirement, is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.
The table below provides the full-time equivalent (FTE) number of qualified teachers retiring, and the retirement rate, from state-funded primary and secondary schools in the Warwick and Leamington constituency and in England, for 2012 and 2020 (the latest data available).
Full-time equivalent (FTE) qualified teacher retirees and retirement rate1 from state-funded primary and secondary schools
As at November 2012, 2020
| Warwick and Leamington | England | |||
Primary | Secondary | Primary | Secondary | ||
2020/212 | Retirees | 1.0 | 1.6 | 1,851 | 1,802 |
Retirement rate | 0.3% | 0.7% | 0.9% | 0.9% | |
2012/13 | Retirees | 4.2 | 8.9 | 5,405 | 5,955 |
Retirement rate | 1.4% | 3.4% | 2.7% | 2.9% | |
Source: School Workforce Census
1: Retirement rate is the number of retirees divided by the total number of qualified teachers in post in November 2020 and 2012 respectively
2: For example, 2020/21 retirees are those who left service between November 2020 and November 2021.
Retirees are defined as teachers who were receiving their pension from the Teachers’ Pensions Scheme (TPS) at or before the time that they left state-funded schools in England. Statistics on all leavers, including retirees, and those who left without immediately receiving their TPS pension, are available from the School Workforce in England publication here : https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/03b17741-eeb9-4fb2-94e1-08db08498a11.