Data set from School workforce in England

Subjects taught by teachers in secondary schools

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Published 25 June 2020

Last updated 25 June 2020

Head count of teachers and the number of hours taught by subject to year groups 7-13 in all state funded secondary schools.

Data set details

Theme: Teachers and school workforce
Publication: School workforce in England
Release: Reporting year 2019
Release type
Geographic levels: National
Indicators: All teachers of years 7 to 13
Numbers of hours taught for years 10 and 11
Numbers of hours taught for years 12 and 13
Filters: Subject taught
Time period: 2011 November to 2019 November

Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data
time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	subject	teachers_allyrs	teachers_yrs79	teachers_yrs1011	teachers_yrs1213	hours_allyrs	hours_yrs79	hours_yrs1011	hours_yrs1213
2019	November	National	E92000001	England	Mathematics	35114	31689	28751	12582	529760	263611	207725	58425
2019	November	National	E92000001	England	English	37892	34649	30002	10685	522466	270434	214671	37360
2019	November	National	E92000001	England	Physics	6642	2140	4335	3930	46973	6394	20963	19616
2019	November	National	E92000001	England	Chemistry	7614	2198	4776	4884	52319	6324	21193	24802
2019	November	National	E92000001	England	Biology	8686	2395	5164	5874	58075	7268	22235	28573

Table showing first 5 of 9 variables
Variable name	Variable description
hours_allyrs	Numbers of hours taught for years 7 through 13
hours_yrs1011	Numbers of hours taught for years 10 and 11
hours_yrs1213	Numbers of hours taught for years 12 and 13
hours_yrs79	Numbers of hours taught for years 7 through 9
subject	Subject taught

Teachers were counted once against each subject that they were teaching, regardless of the amount of time they spend teaching the subject. Teachers were counted under each key stage they were recorded as teaching to; a mathematics teacher who taught all years (7-11) would be included under number of teachers of for years 7 through 9 and years 10 and 11. Teachers are counted against each subject taught, they may therefore appear under more than one category. However they will only appear once in the total regardless of the number of separate subjects taught.
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