Revealed: the 20 areas with the smallest class sizes

Average class sizes are rising, according to the NEU teaching union. But which areas benefit from the best teacher-pupil ratios?

14th November 2019, 12:05am

While average class sizes in the vast majority of England's constituencies have increased since 2010, in 59 constituencies they have gone down.

According to figures from the NEU teaching union, the 20 constituencies with the smallest average primary class sizes are:

Constituency	Average number of pupils per class
Penrith and The Border	21.7
Berwick-upon-Tweed	22.3
Westmorland and Lonsdale	22.4
Workington	22.7
Derbyshire Dales	22.7
Copeland	22.8
North Herefordshire	23.0
Hexham	23.3
Thirsk and Malton	23.7
Redcar	23.7
Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland	23.7
Barrow and Furness	23.8
Vauxhall	24.0
Richmond (Yorks)	24.0
North West Durham	24.1
Henley	24.3
Westminster North	24.3
Cities of London and Westminster	24.3
Skipton and Ripon	24.4
West Lancashire	24.5

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And the 20 constituencies with the smallest average secondary class sizes are:

Constituency	Average number of students per class
Battersea	17.8
Central Devon	18.9
Rother Valley	18.9
Westminster North	19.0
Dover	19.0
Wallasey	19.0
Wyre Forest	19.2
Hampstead and Kilburn	19.3
Wirral South	19.4
Hackney North and Stoke Newington	19.4
Liverpool, Walton	19.4
Telford	19.4
Congleton	19.5
Wolverhampton North East	19.6
Warwick and Leamington	19.6
Liverpool, Riverside	19.6
Hammersmith	19.7
Lincoln	19.7
Cities of London and Westminster	19.7
Putney	19.8