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EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
Class Sizes
Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to his letter of 27 October to the hon. Member for Hertsmere on infant class sizes, if he will give a breakdown of the 1,600 new classrooms to which he refers (a) by type of school and (b) by local education authority. [96918]
Ms Estelle Morris:
To date, over 1,700 extra classrooms have been provided through the class sizes initiative. These are detailed by both local education authority and type of school in the following table. Sufficient funding has been earmarked to allow at least 800 further classrooms to be built by September 2001, when statutory limits on infant class sizes are introduced.
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Mr. Clappison:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to his letter of 27 October to the hon. Member for Hertsmere, what estimate he has made of the number of pupils (a) at Key Stage 2 in primary schools and (b) in secondary schools who will be in classes of over 30 pupils in September 2001. [96919]
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Ms Estelle Morris:
We have made no such estimates. However, the most recent figures show that the proportion of Key Stage 2 children in classes over 30 fell by 1 per cent. between January 1998 and January 1999. This contrasts with an annual rise every year from January 1996 to January 1998. There was also a year-on-year increase in primary class sizes from 1988 to 1998 as a result of the
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budgets of the previous administration. The average number of pupils in Key Stage 2 classes in January 1999 was 28.4. The average number of pupils in secondary classes in January 1999 was 21.9.
Mr. Clappison:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to his letter of 27 October to the hon. Member for Hertsmere on infant class sizes, how many new classrooms have been provided in (a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools in each year for the last 10 years and how many it is planned to provide in each year that has so far been planned for. [96917]
Ms Estelle Morris:
Funding has so far been allocated in support of the Key Stage 1 Class Size Initiative to enable Local Education Authorities to provide over 1,600 more classrooms. Information more generally is not collected centrally.
Mr. Clappison:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to his letter of 27 October to the hon. Member for Hertsmere on infant class sizes, (1) how many secondary school pupils were in classes of over 30 in (a) January 1998, (b) January 1999 and (c) September 1999; [96772]
(3) how many children in nursery classes were in classes of over 30 in (a) January 1998, (b) January 1999 and (c) September 1999. [96887]
Ms Estelle Morris:
The available information is shown in the following tables.
(2) how many pupils aged 8, 9 and 10 years were in classes of over 30 in (a) January 1998, (b) January 1999 and (c) September 1999; [96773]
| January 1999 | September 1999 (7) | January 1998 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nursery Classes(8) | 47,227 | (10)-- | 47,579 |
| Key Stage 1 | 356,586 | 181,000 | 485,311 |
| Key Stage 2(9) | 835,257 | (10)-- | 832,668 |
| Total Primary | 1,278,607 | (10)-- | 1,411,366 |
(7) This figure includes an estimate of the number of pupils entering later in the autumn term under staggered entry arrangements and for pupils from missing schools
(8) Nursery classes normally include at least one extra adult in the classroom
(9) The proportion of pupils in KS2 classes over 30 fell from 40 per cent. to 39 per cent. between January 1998 and January 1999
(10) Not applicable
| January 1999 | January 1998 | |
|---|---|---|
| Total Primary | 1,278,607 | 1,411,366 |
| Total Secondary | 312,974 | 282,633 |
| Total Primary and Secondary | 1,591,581 | 1,693,999 |
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