Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average pupil to teacher ratio was in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in York in each year since 2005.

The following table provides the average pupil to teacher ratio in state funded primary and state funded secondary schools in York and England[1] as reported by schools in each year in November from 2011 to 2015.

[1] the england figures are calculated by dividing the total fte number of pupils on roll in schools in each year by the total number of teachers in schools in each year. where schools are not open on census day, for both the school workforce census (november), and the school census (january) they are excluded. schools that do not provide either pupil or teacher figures are also excluded. see school workforce census methodology document for further information: methodology: sfr21/2016

[2] figures prior to 2011 are not available in a comparable format.

[3] this figure is based on 50 out of the 52 open schools in york in 2013. all other figures for york are based on the full set of schools that were open at the time.