Secondary Education: Mid Bedfordshire
(asked on 10th November 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average staff-to-student ratio was in secondary schools (a) nationally and (b) in Mid Bedfordshire constituency in each year since 2019.
Information on the school workforce, including the pupil to adult and pupil to teacher ratios at national, regional, Local Authority and individual school level, is published in the ‘School workforce in England’ statistical publication here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.
As at November 2022, the latest data available, there were over 468,000 full-time equivalent (FTE) teachers in state funded schools in England, an increase of 27,000 (6%) since 2010. This makes the highest number of FTE teachers since the School Workforce Census began in 2010.
The table below provides the pupil to adult ratio and the pupil to teacher ratio for state funded secondary schools in Mid Bedfordshire constituency and England for academic years 2019/20 to 2022/23.
Pupil to adult and pupil to teacher ratios for state funded secondary schools in Mid Bedfordshire constituency and England, by year
2019/20 and 2022/231
| Mid Bedfordshire constituency2 | England | ||
| Pupil to adult ratio3, 5 | Pupil to teacher ratio4, 5 | Pupil to adult ratio3, 5 | Pupil to teacher ratio4, 5 |
2019/20 | 12.8 | 18.1 | 11.9 | 16.6 |
2020/212 | 12.3 | 19.1 | 11.9 | 16.6 |
2021/22 | 12.6 | 18.2 | 11.9 | 16.7 |
2022/23 | 12.3 | 18.0 | 12.0 | 16.8 |
Source: School Workforce Census.
1. Workforce data as at November and pupil data as at the following January. For instance, 2019/20 relates to November 2019 workforce and January 2020 pupils.
2. There are 14 secondary schools in Mid Bedfordshire constituency. One school is removed from the ratio calculations each year due to the low reliability of reported figures, and a second school is not included for 2020/21 as they did not return data that year.
3. Pupil to adult ratio includes teachers and support staff (excluding administrative and auxiliary staff).
4. Pupil to teacher ratio includes all teachers.
5. The ratios are calculated using pupil numbers taken from the publication, ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’, available at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics.