Data set from School workforce in England

Subjects taught in state funded secondary schools

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Published 9 June 2022

Last updated 9 June 2022

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

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Data set details

• Theme: Teachers and school workforce
• Publication: School workforce in England
• Release: Reporting year 2021
• Geographic levels: National
• Indicators:
  • Number of hours taught for all years
  • Number of hours taught for years 10 and 11
  • Number of hours taught for years 12 and 13
• Filters:
  • Subject taught
• Time period: 2011/12 to 2021/22

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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
202122	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Mathematics	35771	32306	29899	12595	556169	276507	219426	60236
202122	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	English	39043	35603	31368	10568	550238	285705	227881	36652
202122	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Physics	6512	1756	4230	3942	46408	5366	21149	19893
202122	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Chemistry	7589	1797	4687	4998	52682	5334	21657	25691
202122	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Biology	8799	1944	5216	5985	58710	5972	22726	30012

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 9 variables

Variable name	Variable description
hours_allyrs	Number of hours taught for all years
hours_yrs1011	Number of hours taught for years 10 and 11
hours_yrs1213	Number of hours taught for years 12 and 13
hours_yrs79	Number of hours taught for years 7 to 9
subject	Subject taught

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Footnotes

1. Teachers were counted once against each subject and key stage they taught, irrespective of the time spent teaching. Therefore teachers may be counted against multiple subjects and key stages so sums of these categories will be greater than the number of secondary school teachers.

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