Summary Statistics for Schools in Scotland, No 5: 2014 Edition
This contains the results of the annual pupil census, annual teacher census, early learning and childcare data and school estates data.
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Classes and pupils
Table 3.1 shows the distribution of P1-P3 pupils in publicly funded schools by ranges of class size. One of the manifesto commitments, made by the Scottish National Party (SNP) in 2007, was to reduce P1-P3 class sizes to 18 or less.
In September 2014, 12.9 per cent of P1-P3 pupils were taught in classes of 18 or fewer (including those taught by two teachers at all times with a class size of 36 or less), down 0.7 percentage points from 2013. The number of pupils taught in classes of 26 or more decreased from 57,424 in 2006 to a low of 32,702 in September 2009, before increasing again. In September 2014, the number of P1-P3 pupils taught in classes of 26 or more was 46,009 which is 27 per cent of pupils.
Table 3.1: Number of P1-P3 pupils by class size, 2006 to 2014(1)
Class Size |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2014(2) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 - 18 |
19,923 |
23,563 |
23,835 |
25,039 |
34,351 |
32,580 |
31,101 |
22,992 |
22,138 |
19 - 20 |
13,305 |
16,461 |
16,220 |
16,535 |
14,293 |
15,121 |
15,655 |
15,995 |
16,673 |
21 - 25 |
66,220 |
74,446 |
80,151 |
81,332 |
70,687 |
76,499 |
80,243 |
86,854 |
87,295 |
26 - 30 |
56,516 |
39,482 |
33,423 |
32,327 |
39,087 |
36,679 |
37,805 |
42,908 |
45,539 |
31 or more |
908 |
345 |
317 |
375 |
249 |
757 |
473 |
736 |
470 |
% in classes of 18 or less or in 2 teacher classes of 36 or less |
12.7 |
15.3 |
15.5 |
16.1 |
21.6 |
20.2 |
18.8 |
13.6 |
12.9 |
(1) The percentage of P1-P3 pupils in classes of 18 or fewer include two-teacher classes with 36 or less. Classes taught by two teachers at all times are treated as two classes of half the size.
(2) The number of P1-P3 pupils by class size in 2014 was amended slightly in February 2015 as one pupil had been recorded in the wrong class. This affected class size categories 1-18, 19-20 and 21-25.
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