Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the pupil-teacher ratio, including teaching assistants, is in schools in Southampton.

The following table provides the average pupil to teacher/teaching assistant ratio in state funded schools in Southampton local authority area and England in November 2016 the latest year available.[1] November 2017 figures will be available in the summer.

[1] The within-school Pupil:Teacher/Teaching Assistant Ratio (qualified and unqualified teachers) is calculated by dividing the total FTE number of pupils on roll in schools in each year by the total number of FTE teachers and FTE teaching assistants in schools in each year. Where schools are not open on Census (January) they are excluded. See School Workforce Census methodology document for further information: Methodology: SFR25/2017

[2] Excludes centrally employed staff.