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Class Sizes

Average Size of One Teacher Classes, Maintained Schools

	Primary			Secondary
	1997	2007	Difference	1997	2007	Difference
Aldershot Constituency	28.5	26.8	-1.7	20.9	20.8	-0.1
Arundel and South Downs Constituency	26.1	27.2	1.1	21.1	21.4	0.3
Ashford Constituency	27.9	27.2	-0.7	20.4	21	0.6
Aylesbury Constituency	27.8	25.3	-2.5	20.7	21.5	0.8
Banbury Constituency	27	26.1	-0.9	22	21.2	-0.8
Basingstoke Constituency	27.7	27.1	-0.6	22.5	23.3	0.8
Beaconsfield Constituency	27.7	26.1	-1.6	21.6	21.3	-0.3
Bexhill and Battle Constituency	27.8	27.2	-0.6	22.5	25.8	3.3
Bognor Regis and Littlehampton Constituency	26.7	27.2	0.5	21.2	21.1	-0.1
Bracknell Constituency	28.2	26.2	-2.0	20.6	21.6	1.0
Brighton, Kemptown Constituency	28	27.2	-0.8	23	22.9	-0.1
Brighton, Pavilion Constituency	28.5	28.4	-0.1	23.6	23.3	-0.3
Buckingham Constituency	27.1	24.7	-2.4	21.4	20.4	-1.0
Canterbury Constituency	27.7	25.9	-1.8	20.3	20.3	0.0
Chatham and Aylesford Constituency	28.4	26.8	-1.6	21.3	20.3	-1.0
Chesham and Amersham Constituency	28.8	26.8	-2.0	20.4	21.3	0.9
Chichester Constituency	26	25.3	-0.7	21.1	21.9	0.8
Crawley Constituency	27	26	-1.0	20.1	20.1	0.0
Dartford Constituency	28.7	26.8	-1.9	19.5	19.6	0.1
Dover Constituency	28.4	25.3	-3.1	20	20	0.0
East Hampshire Constituency	27.9	27.1	-0.8	21.9	23.3	1.4
East Surrey Constituency	25.9	26.7	0.8	20.9	22	1.1
East Worthing and Shoreham Constituency	27.3	26.5	-0.8	22.7	21.2	-1.5
Eastbourne Constituency	29.1	29.9	0.8	23	23.2	0.2
Eastleigh Constituency	29.1	27.4	-1.7	23.2	22.7	-0.5
Epsom and Ewell Constituency	27.3	26.9	-0.4	20.7	20.7	0.0
Esher and Walton Constituency	26.2	27.5	1.3	22.6	23.7	1.1
Fareham Constituency	27.5	28.2	0.7	23.9	23.3	-0.6
Faversham and Mid Kent Constituency	26.1	27.1	1.0	20.1	19.5	-0.6
Folkestone and Hythe Constituency	27.5	26.5	-1.0	20.5	21.5	1.0
Gillingham Constituency	27.6	26.7	-0.9	20	19.9	-0.1
Gosport Constituency	28.5	26.9	-1.6	22.7	22.8	0.1
Gravesham Constituency	28.1	26.8	-1.3	20.2	20.6	0.4
Guildford Constituency	25.6	26.8	1.2	21.2	20.9	-0.3
Hastings and Rye Constituency	28	27.5	-0.5	20.7	21.1	0.4
Havant Constituency	27.7	26.9	-0.8	22.2	22.1	-0.1
Henley Constituency	26.9	25	-1.9	23.1	21.8	-1.3
Horsham Constituency	26.1	25.9	-0.2	22.6	22.6	0.0
Hove Constituency	29.2	28.4	-0.8	20.5	22.3	1.8
Isle of Wight Constituency	25.9	24.6	-1.3	22.3	22.4	0.1
Lewes Constituency	27.8	26.3	-1.5	21.3	23.6	2.3
Maidenhead Constituency	27.7	25.6	-2.1	20.2	19.5	-0.7
Maidstone and The Weald Constituency	27.6	27.1	-0.5	19.8	20.7	0.9
Medway Constituency	27.4	25	-2.4	20.2	20.4	0.2
Mid Sussex Constituency	27.2	27	-0.2	22	21.7	-0.3
Milton Keynes South West Constituency	28.1	26.2	-1.9	22.6	22.1	-0.5
Mole Valley Constituency	25.7	26.5	0.8	21.5	21.2	-0.3
New Forest East Constituency	27.1	26.6	-0.5	21.3	21.8	0.5
New Forest West Constituency	27.7	26.3	-1.4	19.7	20	0.3
Newbury Constituency	25.9	24.4	-1.5	20.7	19.8	-0.9
North East Hampshire Constituency	28.8	28.2	-0.6	21.8	22.7	0.9
North East Milton Keynes Constituency	27.6	25	-2.6	22.2	21.9	-0.3
North Thanet Constituency	29	27.5	-1.5	22	21.1	-0.9
North West Hampshire Constituency	27.5	26.3	-1.2	22.5	23.1	0.6
Oxford East Constituency	26.8	27.1	0.3	24.4	21.3	-3.1
Oxford West and Abingdon Constituency	28	26.3	-1.7	21.4	20	-1.4
Portsmouth North Constituency	28.5	27.2	-1.3	23.4	22.8	-0.6
Portsmouth South Constituency	27.2	25.7	-1.5	22.7	23.3	0.6
Reading East Constituency	27.7	26	-1.7	19.9	20.2	0.3
Reading West Constituency	26.8	26.2	-0.6	21.4	19.4	-2.0
Reigate Constituency	27.1	26.9	-0.2	22.6	23.7	1.1
Romsey Constituency	27.6	27.1	-0.5	21.4	23.1	1.7
Runnymede and Weybridge Constituency	26.1	26.7	0.6	21.2	24	2.8
Sevenoaks Constituency	27.9	26.6	-1.3	21.2	21.8	0.6
Sittingbourne and Sheppey Constituency	27.9	26.4	-1.5	20.9	22.3	1.4
Slough Constituency	27.8	28	0.2	20.4	20.6	0.2
South Thanet Constituency	29.6	28.5	-1.1	20.4	19.9	-0.5
South West Surrey Constituency	26.1	26.7	0.6	23.1	23.7	0.6
Southampton, Itchen Constituency	27	27.1	0.1	23	21.8	-1.2
Southampton, Test Constituency	28.2	27.2	-1.0	21.9	21.3	-0.6
Spelthorne Constituency	26.2	25.3	-0.9	22.3	22.9	0.6
Surrey Heath Constituency	25.7	26.8	1.1	20.7	21.5	0.8
Tonbridge and Malling Constituency	27.6	25.9	-1.7	20.2	20	-0.2
Tunbridge Wells Constituency	28.3	28.2	-0.1	19.4	22.1	2.7
Wantage Constituency	27.1	25.4	-1.7	21.5	20.2	-1.3
Wealden Constituency	27.8	26	-1.8	19.9	19.5	-0.4
Winchester Constituency	27.4	27.2	-0.2	23.6	24.5	0.9
Windsor Constituency	27.4	26	-1.4	21.7	20.8	-0.9
Witney Constituency	27.2	25.2	-2.0	21.1	21.1	0.0
Woking Constituency	26.5	26.1	-0.4	23	22.6	-0.4
Wokingham Constituency	28.7	26.2	-2.5	20.5	20	-0.5
Worthing West Constituency	28	28.3	0.3	24.5	23.1	-1.4
Wycombe Constituency	27.7	25.4	-2.3	20.5	20.5	0.0

South East Region	27.5	26.6	-0.9	21.3	21.4	0.1

England	27.5	26.2	-1.3	21.7	21.2	-0.5

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National Summary

The average size of classes taught by one teacher in Maintained Primary Schools in 2007 was 26.2 down from 27.5 in 1997.

In Maintained Secondary Schools the average size of classes taught by one teacher in 2007 21.2 down from 21.7 in 1997.

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