Teachers: Men
(asked on 21st February 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) state-funded special and (b) pupil referral unit schools in England did not have any male teachers in each of the last five school workforce reporting years for which data is available.
Information on the school workforce, including the number of teachers by gender in each school, is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.
The table below provides the number and percentage of a) state-funded special and (b) pupil referral unit schools in England without any male teachers in each of the last five school workforce reporting years for which data is available.
State-funded special and pupil referral unit schools in England without a male teacher, by census year and school type, number and percentage as at November 2017 to 2021:
| State-funded special schools | Pupil referral units1 | ||
Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | |
2021 | 45 | 4.5% | 16 | 4.9% |
2020 | 45 | 4.5% | 16 | 4.8% |
2019 | 45 | 4.6% | 18 | 5.3% |
2018 | 41 | 4.2% | 17 | 5.1% |
2017 | 48 | 5.0% | 23 | 6.8% |
Source: School Workforce Census
1: Including alternative provision academy schools.