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Independent schools: number and percentage of pupils January 2006 (provisional)( 1) —by local authority
		Number of pupils in independent schools	Percentage of pupils in independent schools( 2)
	England(3)	563,780	6.9
	North East(3)	12,980	3.1
841	Darlington	706	4.3
840	Durham	2,066	2.6
390	Gateshead	727	2.4
805	Hartlepool	0	0.0
806	Middlesbrough	26	0.1
391	Newcastle upon Tyne	4,772	11.3
392	North Tyneside	1,019	3.2
929	Northumberland	604	1.2
807	Redcar and Cleveland	0	0.0
393	South Tyneside	0	0.0
808	Stockton-on-Tees	1,822	5.7
394	Sunderland	1,236	2.7
	North West(3)	56,160	4.9
889	Blackburn with Darwen	2,817	10.0
890	Blackpool	1,140	5.2
350	Bolton	3,140	6.4
351	Bury	4,203	13.0
875	Cheshire	8,376	7.5
909	Cumbria	3,378	4.2
876	Halton	11	0.1
340	Knowsley	21	0.1
888	Lancashire	6,802	3.8
341	Liverpool	2,378	3.2
352	Manchester	6,490	8.9
353	Oldham	1,573	3.8
354	Rochdale	388	1.1
355	Salford	1,946	5.7
343	Sefton	3,318	6.9
342	St. Helens	742	2.6
356	Stockport	4,773	10.4
357	Tameside	229	0.6
358	Trafford	2,094	5.5
877	Warrington	7	0.0
359	Wigan	0	0.0
344	Wirral	2,335	4.3
	Yorkshire and the Humber(3)	32,990	3.9
370	Barnsley	225	0.6
380	Bradford	3,623	3.9
381	Calderdale	1,419	3.9
371	Doncaster	591	1.2
811	East Riding of Yorkshire	1,815	3.5
810	Kingston upon Hull, City of	1,119	2.8
382	Kirklees	1,881	2.9
383	Leeds	5,054	4.4
812	North East Lincolnshire	435	1.7
813	North Lincolnshire	223	0.9
815	North Yorkshire	6,628	7.0
372	Rotherham	261	0.6
373	Sheffield	2,866	3.7
384	Wakefield	4,387	7.8
816	York	2,460	9.3
	East Midlands(3)	33,490	4.8
831	Derby	1,231	3.0
830	Derbyshire	4,597	3.9
856	Leicester	3,206	6.4
855	Leicestershire	5,318	5.3
925	Lincolnshire	4,577	4.2
928	Northamptonshire	6,096	5.4
892	Nottingham	3,313	7.8
891	Nottinghamshire	2,995	2.4
857	Rutland	2,161	30.4
	West Midlands( 3)	43,420	4.8
330	Birmingham	7,661	4.2
331	Coventry	3,014	5.8
332	Dudley	257	0.5
884	Herefordshire	2,016	7.9
333	Sandwell	14	0.0
893	Shropshire	4,974	11.0
334	Solihull	2,032	5.2
860	Staffordshire	4,518	3.4
861	Stoke-on-Trent	120	0.3
894	Telford and Wrekin	829	2.9
335	Walsall	1,010	2.0
937	Warwickshire	6,766	8.1
336	Wolverhampton	1,794	4.2
885	Worcestershire	8,417	9.5
	East of England(3)	62,650	6.9
820	Bedfordshire	5,687	8.1
873	Cambridgeshire	8,219	9.5
881	Essex	10,678	5.1
919	Hertfordshire	20,943	10.6
821	Luton	713	2.2
926	Norfolk	6,387	5.3
874	Peterborough	380	1.3
882	Southend-on-Sea	1,357	4.8
935	Suffolk	8,287	7.6
883	Thurrock	0	0.0
	London( 3)	120,390	10.0
	Inner London(3)	57,610	13.4
202	Camden	7,266	25.0
201	City of London	1,903	89.2
204	Hackney	3,962	13.1
205	Hammersmith and Fulham	5,180	23.0
309	Haringey	2,154	5.9
206	Islington	588	2.5
207	Kensington and Chelsea	10,604	49.2
208	Lambeth	2,083	6.6
209	Lewisham	1,873	5.0
316	Newham	535	1.1
210	Southward	5,130	12.2
211	Tower Hamlets	906	2.3
212	Wandsworth	8,202	21.5
213	Westminster	7,227	26.7
	Outer London(3)	62,780	8.1
301	Barking and Dagenham	0	0.0
302	Barnet	6,416	11.9
303	Bexley	732	1.8
304	Brent	1,651	3.8
305	Bromley	4,515	8.8
306	Croydon	6,859	11.8
307	Ealing	5,121	10.6
308	Enfield	1,519	3.0
203	Greenwich	3,032	7.5
310	Harrow	4,995	14.7
311	Havering	886	2.4
312	Hillingdon	3,703	7.9
313	Hounslow	976	2.6
314	Kingston upon Thames	3,576	14.2
315	Merton	3,283	12.1
317	Redbridge	3,833	7.8
318	Richmond upon Thames	8,401	29.2
319	Sutton	1,543	4.7
320	Waltham Forest	1,740	4.5
	South East(3)	142,460	10.9
867	Bracknell Forest	2,659	14.9
846	Brighton and Hove	4,002	11.7
825	Buckinghamshire	8,672	10.2
845	East Sussex	7,107	9.7
850	Hampshire	15,886	8.4
921	Isle of Wight	770	3.8
886	Kent	17,461	7.5
887	Medway	1,533	3.4
826	Milton Keynes	1,130	3.0
931	Oxfordshire	15,383	15.2
851	Portsmouth	3,279	11.8
870	Reading	2,850	14.4
871	Slough	765	3.5
852	Southampton	1,750	5.9
936	Surrey	37,411	21.1
869	West Berkshire	3,054	10.9
938	West Sussex	11,303	9.7
868	Windsor and Maidenhead	4,491	18.9
872	Wokingham	2,956	11.2
	South West(3)	59,230	7.6
800	Bath and North East Somerset	4,314	14.7
837	Bournemouth	1,506	6.8
801	Bristol, City of	8,578	15.1
908	Cornwall	2,740	3.6
878	Devon	8,284	7.8
835	Dorset	5,004	8.3
916	Gloucestershire	8,317	8.9
420	Isles of Scilly	0	0.0
802	North Somerset	1,012	3.5
879	Plymouth	1,242	3.1
836	Poole	730	3.6
933	Somerset	9,268	11.6
803	South Gloucestershire	575	1.4
866	Swindon	65	0.2
880	Torbay	766	3.8
865	Wiltshire	6,828	9.4
(1) Figures are based on survey returns from around 94 per cent. of independent schools. No estimation has been made for those survey returns that are outstanding. (2) Number of pupils in independent schools expressed as a percentage of pupils in maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools, all special schools, pupil referral units, city technology colleges, academies, direct grant nurseries and independent schools. (3) National and regional totals have been rounded to the nearest 10. There may be discrepancies between totals and constituent parts. Source: Annual Schools Census

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