Secondary Education: Teachers
(asked on 21st June 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teachers there were in state secondary schools in England in each year from 2010-11 to the most recent year for which data is available.
The following table provides the full time equivalent number of teachers in state funded secondary schools in England, in November 2010 to 2016.
| State Funded Secondary Schools[1] |
November 2010 | 219,000 |
November 2011 | 215,200 |
November 2012 | 215,700 |
November 2013 | 214,200 |
November 2014 | 213,400 |
November 2015 | 210,900 |
November 2016 | 208,200 |
Source: School Workforce Census
These figures are derived from the November School Workforce Census and are published in table 1 from the statistical first release ‘School Workforce in England, November 2016’, available at the following web link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2016.
[1] Figures are rounded to the nearest 100 teachers.