Data set from School workforce in England

Pupil to teacher ratios - school level

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Published 4 June 2026

Last updated 4 June 2026

Pupil to teacher ratios and pupil to adult ratios in state-funded schools

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Data set details

• Theme: Teachers and school workforce
• Publication: School workforce in England
• Release: Reporting year 2025
• Number of rows: 349,650
• Geographic levels: School
• Indicators:
  • Number of FTE adults
  • Number of FTE pupils
  • Number of FTE qualified teachers
• Filters:
  • Type of school
• Time period: 2010/11 to 2025/26

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	region_code	region_name	old_la_code	new_la_code	la_name	school_laestab	school_urn	school_name	establishment_type_group	pupils_fte	qualified_teachers_fte	teachers_fte	adults_fte	pupil_to_qual_teacher_ratio	pupil_to_qual_unqual_teacher_ratio	pupil_to_adult_ratio
202526	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E13000001	Inner London	201	E09000001	City of London	2013614	100000	The Aldgate School	LA maintained primary	229	12.4	13.3	30	18.4	17.3	7.6
202526	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E13000001	Inner London	202	E09000007	Camden	2021048	100005	Thomas Coram Centre	LA maintained nursery	86	4.3	4.3	28.5	20	20	3
202526	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E13000001	Inner London	202	E09000007	Camden	2021100	100006	Heath School	LA maintained special or PRU	61	8.8	8.8	23.5	6.9	6.9	2.6
202526	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E13000001	Inner London	202	E09000007	Camden	2021101	100007	Camden Primary Pupil Referral Unit	LA maintained special or PRU	20	13.9	14.9	31.9	1.4	1.3	0.6
202526	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E13000001	Inner London	202	E09000007	Camden	2022000	136807	St Luke's Church of England School	Primary free school	97	6.4	6.4	10	15.2	15.2	9.7

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 8 variables

Variable name	Variable description
adults_fte	Number of FTE adults
establishment_type_group	Type of school
pupil_to_adult_ratio	Pupil to adult ratio within schools
pupil_to_qual_teacher_ratio	Pupil to teacher ratio (qualified) within schools
pupil_to_qual_unqual_teacher_ratio	Pupil to teacher ratio (qualified and unqualified teachers) within schools

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