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'Teacher and support staff FTE and headcount numbers' from 'School workforce in England'

• Created: 13 March 2021

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'Teacher and support staff FTE and headcount numbers' for State-funded secondary in England between 2010/11 and 2019/20

	2010/11	2011/12	2012/13	2013/14	2014/15	2015/16	2016/17	2017/18	2018/19	2019/20
FTE of administrative staff	:	38,535	39,519	40,147	40,394	39,983	39,391	38,251	37,693	37,115
FTE of all teachers	218,737	214,582	215,706	214,231	213,903	210,935	208,300	204,243	203,768	204,712
FTE of all workforce	:	366,254	371,570	370,910	370,173	363,750	357,424	348,600	345,501	345,370
FTE of auxiliary staff	:	26,035	27,060	26,745	27,058	26,404	25,656	24,970	24,588	24,003
FTE of other school support staff	:	12,027	12,571	13,042	13,478	13,683	14,159	14,458	14,867	15,454
FTE of teaching assistants	:	52,829	54,346	54,305	53,395	51,599	49,615	47,357	45,918	45,990
FTE of technicians	:	22,247	22,367	22,439	21,945	21,148	20,303	19,321	18,668	18,097
Headcount of administrative staff	:	46,608	47,393	47,896	47,779	47,281	46,487	45,130	44,514	44,012
Headcount of all full-time teachers	195,201	190,800	192,076	189,641	189,579	185,205	181,814	177,678	176,341	176,093
Headcount of all full-time teachers without qualified teacher status	8,632	7,776	7,555	7,989	9,353	10,116	10,143	9,536	9,436	9,667
Headcount of all part-time teachers	38,578	38,720	38,846	39,879	39,589	41,264	42,046	42,036	43,001	44,521
Headcount of all part-time teachers without qualified teacher status	3,779	3,503	3,563	3,662	3,685	3,695	3,746	3,310	3,336	3,355
Headcount of all teachers	233,778	229,520	230,922	229,520	229,168	226,469	223,861	219,713	219,342	220,613
Headcount of all teachers without qualified teacher status	12,412	11,278	11,118	11,652	13,038	13,811	13,889	12,847	12,772	13,023
Headcount of all workforce	:	443,258	449,767	447,362	443,000	434,526	425,283	413,951	409,335	408,187
Headcount of assistant head teachers	12,371	12,237	12,737	13,075	14,009	14,237	14,073	14,064	14,383	14,394
Headcount of auxiliary staff	:	55,420	57,162	56,176	55,027	53,027	50,681	48,867	47,509	45,601
Headcount of classroom teachers	212,239	208,417	209,300	207,471	206,072	203,165	200,764	196,688	195,964	197,128
Headcount of deputy head teachers	5,748	5,528	5,495	5,485	5,547	5,511	5,363	5,253	5,224	5,288
Headcount of full-time assistant head teachers	11,825	11,633	12,108	12,409	13,345	13,427	13,179	13,196	13,417	13,329
Headcount of full-time classroom teachers	174,503	170,552	171,297	168,518	167,375	163,010	159,905	155,812	154,260	154,004
Headcount of full-time deputy head teachers	5,513	5,349	5,353	5,316	5,393	5,305	5,173	5,066	5,000	5,067
Headcount of full-time head teachers	3,360	3,266	3,318	3,398	3,466	3,463	3,557	3,603	3,664	3,693
Headcount of full-time leadership teachers	20,697	20,248	20,779	21,123	22,204	22,195	21,909	21,865	22,081	22,089
Headcount of head teachers	3,421	3,338	3,390	3,488	3,539	3,556	3,661	3,708	3,772	3,804
Headcount of leadership teachers	21,539	21,103	21,622	22,049	23,096	23,304	23,097	23,025	23,379	23,486
Headcount of occasional teachers	3,832	3,230	4,273	4,383	4,743	4,446	4,774	4,448	4,424	4,113
Headcount of other school support staff	:	15,469	16,356	16,414	16,432	16,676	17,057	17,264	17,693	18,339
Headcount of part-time assistant head teachers	547	605	629	666	664	810	894	869	966	1,065
Headcount of part-time classroom teachers	37,736	37,865	38,003	38,954	38,697	40,155	40,859	40,875	41,704	43,124
Headcount of part-time deputy head teachers	235	179	142	169	154	207	190	187	223	221
Headcount of part-time head teachers	61	72	72	90	74	93	104	105	108	110
Headcount of part-time leadership teachers	842	855	843	925	891	1,109	1,187	1,160	1,297	1,397
Headcount of teaching assistants	:	69,319	70,954	70,471	68,374	65,814	63,013	59,914	57,980	57,939
Headcount of technicians	:	26,922	26,980	26,886	26,221	25,259	24,184	23,064	22,296	21,683
Headcount of third-party staff	:	17,262	19,288	19,591	17,315	17,030	16,801	17,608	17,479	17,783

Footnotes

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Source: School workforce in England, Teacher and support staff FTE and headcount numbers

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