Data set from School workforce in England

Subjects taught

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Published 5 June 2025

Last updated 5 June 2025

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

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Data set details

• Theme: Teachers and school workforce
• Publication: School workforce in England
• Release: Reporting year 2024
• 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 2024/25

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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
202425	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Mathematics	37835	33446	30601	12967	548091	266660	217044	64388
202425	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	English	41293	36883	32384	10528	541134	276446	228612	36077
202425	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Physics	6242	1582	4224	3631	43405	4659	20277	18468
202425	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Chemistry	7245	1686	4735	4484	48774	4673	21038	23062
202425	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Biology	8167	1784	5131	5313	53133	5231	22030	25872

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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 may be greater than the number of secondary school teachers.

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