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 in Romford constituency in (a) 2009, (b) 2019 and (c) 2022.

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, which is 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 Romford constituency and England for the 2019/20 and 2022/23 academic years. Equivalent figures for 2009/10 are not available.

Pupil to adult and pupil to teacher ratios for state funded secondary schools in Romford constituency and England, by academic year

2019/20 and 2022/23¹

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. Pupil to adult ratio includes teachers and support staff (excluding administrative and auxiliary staff).

3. Pupil to teacher ratio includes all teachers.

4. 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