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'Subjects taught in state funded secondary schools' from 'School workforce in England'

• Created: 17 April 2023

WARNING - The data used in this table may now be out-of-date as a new release has been published since its creation.

Number of hours taught for all years for 'Subjects taught in state funded secondary schools' for Biology, Chemistry, Computer science, English, French and 7 other filters in England between 2017/18 and 2021/22

	2017/18	2018/19	2019/20	2020/21	2021/22
Mathematics	516,238	523,827	529,760	546,508	556,169
English	511,535	518,008	522,466	544,947	550,238
Biology	57,460	57,506	58,075	58,370	58,710
Chemistry	51,644	52,358	52,319	52,471	52,682
Physics	45,987	46,823	46,973	46,935	46,408
General/Combined Science	392,686	394,848	401,632	424,166	433,287
Other science	8,122	8,185	8,389	9,260	9,259
Computer science	27,881	31,190	33,641	51,567	56,893
French	117,830	115,339	113,433	116,116	116,804
German	33,310	31,322	30,069	29,414	27,966
Spanish	73,193	75,978	79,812	85,689	90,837
Other Modern Foreign Language	15,693	15,402	14,157	15,532	15,333

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.

Source: School workforce in England, Subjects taught in state funded secondary schools

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