Class Sizes: East of England
(asked on 18th July 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Key Stage 1 children in (a) Bury St Edmunds constituency, (b) Suffolk and (c) the East of England were in classes of more than 30 children in the academic year beginning September (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012, (iv) 2013, (iv) 2014 and (v) 2015.
The number of pupils in key stage one classes of more than 30 pupils for each of the years and locations requested is given below, along with the corresponding number of classes:
- | Bury St Edmunds Constituency | Suffolk Local Authority | East of England | |||
- | Number of Pupils | Number of Classes | Number of Pupils | Number of Classes | Number of Pupils | Number of Classes |
Jan-11 | 157 | 5 | 468 | 15 | 3,735 | 119 |
Jan-12 | 96 | 3 | 408 | 13 | 4,905 | 157 |
Jan-13 | 31 | 1 | 529 | 17 | 6,575 | 211 |
Jan-14 | 93 | 3 | 437 | 14 | 7,705 | 247 |
Jan-15 | 124 | 4 | 751 | 24 | 9,338 | 299 |
Jan-16 | 155 | 5 | 716 | 23 | 9,451 | 303 |
This information has been taken from the Local authority tables and underlying data of the ‘schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical release[1] for the corresponding year.
Of those infant classes with more than 30 pupils, roughly 95% of pupils are in classes of 31 or 32 pupils and larger classes are uncommon.
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers