Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to Table 2e, Schools Pupils and Their Characteristics, National Tables, how many primary schools had 801 or more pupils on their roll in each (a) region and (b) local authority in England in January 2018.

There were 129 stated-funded primary schools with 801 or more pupils in England in January 2018. The tables below provide this by region and local authority.

These figures are derived from the data published at the annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical release at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2018.

Data for each school is available in the underlying data, contained in the file named ‘Schools_Pupils_and_their_Characteristics _2018_Schools_Pupils_UD’.

A large school does not mean larger class sizes. Despite an increase of over half a million children attending state-funded primary schools in England between 2010 and 2018, the average primary class size has remained stable.

This Government is undertaking the biggest expansion in school places in two generations, and recent statistics show we are well on track to create one million places nationwide in the decade to 2020, reversing a reduction of 100,000 school places between 2004 and 2010.

Table 1 – State-funded primary schools with 801 or more pupils in January 2018, by region

Source: School census

Table 2 - State-funded primary schools with 801 or more pupils in January 2018, by local authority

Source: School census