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School Workforce

Numbers of Teaching Assistants and Other Support Staff (FTE), Maintained Schools Metadata

Teaching AssistantsOther Support Staff
19972007Difference19972007Difference
West Midlands Region7,23018,87011,6407,35015,5508,200
England61,260165,380104,12075,200147,00071,800

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Numbers of Teachers (FTE), Maintained Schools Metadata

PrimarySecondary
19972007Difference19972007Difference
West Midlands Region21,03021,24021021,02024,4703,450
England183,930188,8604,930184,330214,27029,940

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Pupil Teacher Ratios for Maintained Primary and Secondary Schools Metadata

PrimarySecondary
19972007Difference19972007Difference
Birmingham District22.720.7-2.016.115.3-0.8
Bridgnorth District23.823.7-0.116.4170.6
Bromsgrove District2322.3-0.718.116.8-1.3
Cannock Chase District24.923-1.917.616-1.6
Coventry District23.621.4-2.216.616.5-0.1
Dudley District22.420.5-1.916.515.9-0.6
East Staffordshire District23.722.4-1.317.616.3-1.3
Herefordshire, County of District2320.6-2.416.915.8-1.1
Lichfield District2522.5-2.517.416.4-1.0
Malvern Hills District22.920.4-2.517.215.6-1.6
Newcastle-under-Lyme District2522.8-2.217.315.8-1.5
North Shropshire District23.123.10.015.916.30.4
North Warwickshire District25.322.6-2.717.517.50.0
Nuneaton and Bedworth District24.823-1.81818.10.1
Oswestry District25.124.7-0.416.817.40.6
Redditch District22.421.6-0.81817-1.0
Rugby District24.122.5-1.617.716.7-1.0
Sandwell District2422.4-1.616.816-0.8
Shrewsbury and Atcham District24.823.9-0.916.816.5-0.3
Solihull District2421.3-2.716.816.6-0.2
South Shropshire District23.522.8-0.715.516.51.0
South Staffordshire District25.122.6-2.517.916.5-1.4
Stafford District25.122.8-2.31816.8-1.2
Staffordshire Moorlands District24.421.1-3.318.117.1-1.0
Stoke-on-Trent District25.423.7-1.717.616.2-1.4
Stratford-on-Avon District24.321.5-2.817.316.4-0.9
Tamworth District24.122.7-1.417.415.2-2.2
Telford and Wrekin District24.923.4-1.516.916.2-0.7
Walsall District23.721.6-2.116.315.7-0.6
Warwick District24.221.9-2.316.816.2-0.6
Wolverhampton District22.421-1.41615.6-0.4
Worcester District24.422-2.418.118.20.1
Wychavon District23.120.3-2.817.515.9-1.6
Wyre Forest District23.920.1-3.818.615-3.6
West Midlands Region23.621.7-1.916.916.1-0.8
England23.421.8-1.616.716.4-0.3

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Average salary of full-time regular qualified teachers in service in the maintained sector. £'s Metadata

19972006Difference
West Midlands Region22,66033,420(p)10,760
England23,00034,010(p)11,010

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National Summary

Teaching Assistants - in 2007 there were 165,380 teaching assistants in Maintained Schools up from 61,260 in 1997.

Other Support Staff - in 2007 there were 147,000 full time equivalent other support staff in Maintained Schools up from 75,000 in 1997.

Numbers of Teachers - in 2007 there were 188,860 full time equivalent teachers in Maintained Primary Schools up from 183,930 in 1997. In Maintained Secondary Schools there were 214,270 full time equivalent teachers in 2007 up from 184,330 in 1997.

Pupil Teacher Ratios - in 2007 the pupil : teacher ratio for Maintained Primary Schools was 21.8 down from 23.4 in 1997. For Maintained Secondary Schools the pupil : teacher ratio in 2007 was 16.4 down from 16.7 in 1997.

The average salary of full-time regular qualified teachers, in service in the maintained sector, in 2006 was £34,010 (provisional) up from £23,000 in 1997.


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