The latest national statistics on School Workforce produced by the Department for Education were released on 20th April 2011 according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics AuthorityUK Statistics Authority

DfE: School Workforce in England, November 2010 (Provisional)

DescriptionThis publication will publish for the first time information from the first annual School Workforce Census that took place in November 2010. The census replaces several other data collections and includes a wider range of information than was previously available from the form 618g and School Census information that it replaces.

The publication includes information on teacher and other school workforce numbers, broken down by contract type and characteristics including gender, age and ethnicity. It also includes information on teachers pay and allowances, teachers' qualifications, the curriculum taught by teachers and teacher vacancies.

Tables 12 and 13 were revised on 11 May 2011. Table 12 has been revised as psychology figures had previously been omitted from the Other Social Studies category. Table 13 has been revised to remove a small number of teachers that were not teaching pupils in year groups 11 to 13. In most cases this has generated differences of less than half a percentage point and the presented confidence intervals have not changed.

Tables 17 and 18 were added to the SFR on 20 July 2011 together with additional descriptions and notes to editors relevant to these tables. These tables cover Pupil to Teacher Ratios, (PTR), and Teacher Sickness Absence.

Revisions were made to table 2 for nursery and primary teacher numbers for the 2009 historic data provided for comparison purposes. In addition a very small change was made to the total average salary figures for men and women in academies in table 9. These changes do not affect the overall totals in these tables.

Files of data underlying this SFR at regional, local authority area and school level have been added on the 20 July. The following breakdowns are included in these files. For further information please see the metadata file that is included.
  • The size of the schools' workforce in terms of its classroom teachers, school leadership teachers, teaching assistants and non-classroom based support staff.
  • The characteristics of school teachers inc. indicators on age, gender, ethnicity, full/part-time working, Qualified Teacher Status.
  • The characteristics of teaching assistants and non-classroom based support staff inc. indicators on age and ethnicity.
  • The average salary of teachers in schools and proportion of teaching staff on the various pay scales.
  • The proportion of teachers taking sickness absence and the number of days lost to absence.
  • The number and proportion of vacancies and/or temporary filled posts.
The underlying data was updated on 27 January 2012 following the discovery of a minor issue on one of the data items.

Additional tables covering Initial Teacher Training, Teacher Entrants, Wastage and Turnover, (Flows), Teacher Retirements and Out of Service Teachers Aged Under 60 were added to this SFR on 23 February 2012
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Additional informationEXCEL (These Excel spreadsheets contain the main tables from this SFR(provisional))
Additional informationEXCEL (These Excel spreadsheets give the mapping of the Joint Academic Coding System (JACS) codes to the subject codes used in this SFR.)
Additional informationEXCEL (These Excel spreadsheets contain the additional tables on initial teacher training and teacher flows, which were added to this SFR on 23 February 2012)
Publication’s Underlying Data
Additional informationZip Archive (Underlying data - .csv format)
Additional informationZip Archive (Underlying data - .xls format)
Reference IDSFR06/2011
Coverage Country England
Date Released20 April 2011
Main Category Children, Education and Skills
Sub CategoryTeachers and School Staff    Click on subcategory link to see if there is later information
TypeStatistical First Release
ContactRichard Howe  richard.howe@education.gsi.gov.uk  tel: 01325 735470
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