Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average class size was in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in (i) Barnsley and (ii) the UK in each of the last seven years.

At local authority level, average class size figures are calculated and published annually for Key Stages 1 and 2, within primary level, for all authorities in England. The most recent figures can be found in local authority and regional table 11 of the statistical first release available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2017. Local authority level data at secondary level is not available.

A UK figure is not available. As education is a devolved matter, statistics on schools are published separately by the four administrations.