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'Class sizes - state-funded primary and secondary schools' from 'Schools, pupils and their characteristics'

• Created: 8 March 2023

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'Class sizes - state-funded primary and secondary schools' for Primary, Secondary, State-funded primary, State-funded primary and secondary total and State-funded secondary in England and London between 2015/16 and 2021/22

			England							London
			2015/16	2016/17	2017/18	2018/19	2019/20	2020/21	2021/22	2015/16	2016/17	2017/18	2018/19	2019/20	2020/21	2021/22
Primary	State-funded primary	Average class size	27.1	27.1	27.1	27.1	27.0	26.6	26.6	27.7	27.5	27.3	27.2	27.1	26.4	26.4
		Number of pupils	4,193,180	4,265,334	4,290,659	4,297,570	4,272,738	4,177,058	4,169,888	675,462	681,668	684,152	681,756	674,908	652,921	647,524
	State-funded primary and secondary total	Average class size	27.1	27.1	27.1	27.1	27.0	26.6	26.6	27.7	27.5	27.3	27.2	27.1	26.4	26.4
		Number of pupils	4,193,180	4,265,334	4,290,659	4,297,570	4,272,738	4,177,058	4,169,888	675,462	681,668	684,152	681,756	674,908	652,921	647,524
Secondary	State-funded primary and secondary total	Average class size	20.4	20.8	21.2	21.7	22.0	22.3	22.3	20.2	20.7	21.0	21.5	21.8	22.1	22.1
		Number of pupils	2,963,359	2,994,796	3,030,930	3,090,498	3,167,115	3,241,481	3,295,442	454,832	466,464	474,857	483,736	498,554	509,309	521,739
	State-funded secondary	Average class size	20.4	20.8	21.2	21.7	22.0	22.3	22.3	20.2	20.7	21.0	21.5	21.8	22.1	22.1
		Number of pupils	2,963,359	2,994,796	3,030,930	3,090,498	3,167,115	3,241,481	3,295,442	454,832	466,464	474,857	483,736	498,554	509,309	521,739

Source: Schools, pupils and their characteristics, Class sizes - state-funded primary and secondary schools

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