Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the pupil to teacher ratio is, including teaching assistants, in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in Romford constituency.

The following table provides the average pupil to teacher ratio in state funded primary and state funded secondary schools in Romford constituency and England as reported by schools in November 2018.

Pupil teacher ratios are available at school, local authority and regional level in the publication ‘School Workforce in England, November 2018’ available at the following web link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2018.

Combined ratios including teaching assistants are not routinely published. Pupil : adult ratios are available by phase at national level and are available in the web link provided above (Table 17a).

[1] The England figures are calculated by dividing the total full-time equivalent (FTE) number of pupils on roll in schools in each year by the total number of teachers in schools each year. Where schools are not open on Census day, for both the School Workforce Census (November), and the School Census (January) they are excluded. Schools that do not provide either pupil or teacher figures are also excluded. See School Workforce Census methodology document for further information: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/811619/SWFC_Methodology.pdf.