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Step 1 Choose a publication
- Publication
- Education and training statistics for the UK
Step 2 Select a data set
- Data set
- Teacher numbers
Step 3 Choose locations
- National
- United Kingdom
Step 4 Choose time period
- Time period
- 2015/16 to 2020/21
Step 5 Choose your filters
- Indicators
- Full-time equivalent number of teachers
- Gender
- Total
- School type
- Total
- Middle
- Non-maintained mainstream
- Nursery
- Primary
Step 6 (current) Explore data
This data is not from the latest releaseView latest data: Reporting year 2023Full-time equivalent number of teachers for 'Teacher numbers' for Middle, Non-maintained mainstream, Nursery, Primary, Secondary and 2 other filters in United Kingdom between 2015/16 and 2020/21 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 Nursery 2,585 2,483 2,408 2,251 2,213 2,112 Primary 262,544 265,361 264,605 265,844 264,804 267,140 Middle 345 533 714 981 1,157 1,223 Secondary 254,287 251,039 246,956 246,150 247,378 253,468 Special 25,047 25,751 26,222 27,139 27,883 28,674 Total maintained 550,495 550,749 545,834 547,275 548,078 557,346 Non-maintained mainstream 74,182 74,309 75,882 77,317 76,442 78,981 Total 624,677 625,058 621,717 624,592 624,520 636,327 Footnotes
- In England, special schools include pupil referral units.
- Primary and secondary figures include middle schools as deemed. Secondary schools include all-through schools.
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- Publication: Education and training statistics for the UK, Reporting year 2023
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