Determining primary school capacity: guidance for local authorities

Appendix 2

Education (Lower Primary Class Sizes) (Scotland) Regulations 1999

3. (1) Subject to paragraph (5) no lower primary class at a school shall contain more than 30 pupils while an ordinary teaching session is conducted by a single qualified teacher.

(2) Where an ordinary teaching session in the case of any such class is conducted by more than one qualified teacher, paragraph (1) shall be taken to prohibit the class from containing more than 30 pupils for every one of those teachers.

(3) Where a lower primary class at a school contains any excepted pupil (as defined by regulation 4), paragraph (1) or (2) shall apply as if he were not included in the class.

(4) The limit of 30 pupils imposed by paragraphs (1) and (2) shall apply-
(a) in relation to a Primary 1 class, from August 1999 until the end of the school year beginning in 2010;
(b) in relation to a Primary 2 class, from 1 ^st August 2000; and
(c) in relation to a Primary 3 class, from 1 ^st August 2001.

(5) In respect of the school year beginning in 2011 and each subsequent school year, in relation to a Primary 1 class, the limit on the number of pupils imposed in paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be 25.