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| Table B: Grammar Schools/ Non Grammar Schools/ Not known | ||||
| Type of school( 1) | Number of schools( 2) | Total budget share plus grants allocated to school( 3,4) (£) | January 2007 Pupil Count (FTE registered pupils)( 5) | Average total budget share plus grants per pupil allocated to school( 6 ) (£) |
| Table C: Specialist Schools/ Non Specialist Schools/ Not Known | ||||
| Type of school( 1) | Number of schools( 2) | Total budget share plus grants allocated to school( 3,4) (£) | January 2007 Pupil Count (FTE registered pupils)( 5) | Average total budget share plus grants per pupil allocated to school( 6) (£) |
| (1) The school types are drawn from Edubase (the Department’s database of educational establishments) and matched across to the financial data reported on Section 52 Budget to give the figures for each school type. The 26 schools with unknown classifications are those where there is no match between Section 52 and Edubase. (2) Included are all local authority maintained schools in England reported by local authorities on their 2007-08 Section 52 Budget Statement (Table 2). All tables include primary, secondary and special schools. (3) Budget share plus grants is the combination of the school's individual budget share plus any revenue grants allocated to the school at the start of the financial year. For 2007-08 this comprises the Total Budget Share plus any School Standards Grant (including personalisation), School Development Grant, Other Standards Fund Allocation, Devolved School Meals Grant, Targeted School Meals Grant, Threshold and Performance Pay and Support for Schools in Financial Difficulty allocated to the school at the start of the financial year. Financial data are drawn from local authorities’ 2007-08 Section 52 Budget Statements (Table 2) submitted to the DCSF. This does not include any capital funding allocated to schools. (4) The amount of money allocated to a school depends very much on the individual local authorities’ own policy for funding their schools. Different authorities retain varying amounts of funding centrally to spend on behalf of their schools while others chose to give schools more autonomy over how they spend their money by devolving more funding to the individual school. (5) The January 2007 pupil numbers used to calculate the per pupil amounts are as reported by the local authority on their Section 52 Budget Statement comprising the full time equivalent number pupils registered at the school used for the initial determination of the school’s budget share under the local authority’s allocation formula. (6) Per pupil figures are rounded to the nearest 10 and may not sum due to rounding. Notes: 1. 2007-08 data are subject to change by the local authority. 2. Cash terms figures as reported by local authorities as at 15 November 2007. | ||||
| Table D: Funding allocated to Academies and CTCs for the Academic year 2007/08 | ||||
| Type of school | Number of schools( 1) | Total revenue funding( 2 ) (£) | Pupil numbers( 3) | Average per pupil (£) |
| (1) BRIT City College For The Technology Of The Arts is funded as an academy and included as such in the table although its legal status is the same as a CTC. (2) Includes all revenue grants payable by DCSF except start-up grants and earmarked annual grants, which are excluded. School Standards Grant payable in May 2008 is included on an estimated basis. Does not include Standards Fund and SEN funding payable through or by local authorities. (3) Academies are funded on forecast numbers at September 2007; CTCs on agreed pupil numbers related to capacity. | ||||
Schools: Fire Extinguishers
John Penrose: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families whether the plans to install sprinkler systems in new and refurbished schools extend to all categories of state schools. [167323]
Jim Knight: The Department's policy on sprinkler systems is that a risk assessment should be undertaken for new and refurbishment projects in all categories of state-funded schools. To help local authorities and school designers to decide when sprinklers are needed, DCSF has produced a risk assessment tool and a cost benefit analysis tool. See
Our expectation is that nearly all new schools and some refurbished schools will have fire sprinklers installed, however this is not a compulsory measure. There may be cases where local authorities or other promoters of schools consider that sprinklers are not needed. If so, they will need to be able to demonstrate that such schools are very low risk and that sprinklers would not represent good value for money.
Schools: Fire Prevention
John Battle: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many schools in West Leeds are fitted with sprinkler systems. [166273]
Jim Knight: Currently four schools in the constituency of Leeds West are fitted with sprinklers. A further 11 or so schools in West Leeds in the Pudsey and Leeds North West constituencies also have sprinkler systems fitted. Since 2001, Leeds Education have had a policy to fit sprinklers in all new build schools and the new PFI schools being constructed and the new BSF schools in planning will all have sprinkler systems installed. Refurbishment schemes in Leeds are assessed on a case-by-case basis.
Schools: Special Educational Needs
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families in which schools more than half of the pupils have special educational needs, excluding special schools. [166704]
Jim Knight: In the table placed in the House Library the 731 schools in which more than half of the pupils have special educational needs is shown. Independent special schools have been included in the list as the indicator used is not sufficiently robust to enable them to be excluded.
Secondary Education
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of secondary schools had more than (a) 1,000 pupils and (b) 1,500 pupils in (i) 1997 and (ii) 2007. [166703]
Jim Knight: The requested information is given in the table
| Maintained secondary schools, city technology colleges and academies( 1) : Number of schools and pupils by size of school( 2) —position in January each year: 1997 and 2007—England | |||
| Schools with up to and including 1,000 pupils | |||
| Number of schools | Number of pupils | Percentage of pupils( 3) | |
| Schools with 1,001 to 1,500 pupils | |||
| Number of schools | Number of pupils | Percentage of pupils( 3) | |
| Schools with 1,501 to 2,000 pupils | |||
| Number of schools | Number of pupils | Percentage of pupils( 3) | |
| Schools with more than 2,000 pupils | |||
| Number of schools | Number of pupils | Percentage of pupils( 3) | |
| All schools | |||
| Number of schools | Number of pupils | Percentage of pupils( 3) | |
| (1) Includes middle schools as deemed. (2) Based on a headcount of pupils. Excludes dually registered pupils. (3) The number of pupils by size band of schools expressed as a percentage of the total number of pupils in maintained secondary schools, city technology colleges and academies. Note: Pupil numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10 Source: School Census | |||
Secondary Education: Admissions
Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what proportion of secondary schools were oversubscribed for admissions in 2007. [165761]
Jim Knight: I refer the hon. Member to the reply given on 15 November 2007, Official Report, column 439W.
Secondary Education: Free School Meals
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families if he will list all maintained secondary schools with over 50 per cent. of children eligible for free school meals, ranked by (a) percentage of children eligible for free school meals and (b) percentage of children achieving (i) five or more A* to C GCSEs and (ii) five or more A* to C GCSEs including maths and English. [166343]
Jim Knight: This information can be provided only at a disproportionate cost.
Secondary Education: Surveys
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families when he expects the results of the Secondary School Curriculum and Staffing Survey to be published. [166467]
Jim Knight: The results of the 2007 Secondary School Curriculum and Staffing Survey are expected to be published in early 2008.
Specialist Schools and Academies Trust
Helen Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what recent discussions he has had with the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust about its future role. [164461]
Jim Knight: The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT) is a valued strategic partner. The Department has many discussions with the SSAT on their ongoing work to support specialist schools and academies.
Supply Teachers
Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many supply teacher days there were in each (a) primary and (b) secondary school in Merseyside in 2006-07; and what the average number of such days was in each category of school in England in the same period. [166718]
Jim Knight: The information requested is not collected centrally.
Teachers: Labour Turnover
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what proportion of school teachers left the profession before completing five years of teaching (a) in total and (b) broken down by subject in (i) England, (ii) each region and (iii) each local education authority area in the latest year for which figures are available. [166501]
Jim Knight: Provisional estimates show that the number of full and part-time qualified teachers with less than five years recorded teaching service who left local authority maintained schools in England in 2005-06 was 9,340. It is not known how many of these were going to teaching posts in other education sectors or countries or how many were leaving teaching permanently. This information is not available broken down by subject, region or local authority.
The source of this information is the Database of Teacher Records (DTR).
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