Summary Statistics for Schools in Scotland, No.3: 2012 Edition

Data on pre-school, primary and total teachers along with associated pupil teacher ratios for 2010, 2011 and 2012 have been revised to remove teachers who were double counted as a result of working in both sectors. Therefore these figures have been superseded, please use revised figures in the 2013 publication.

Teachers

Table 2.1 shows the teacher numbers in publicly funded schools for all sectors. There were 22,732 teachers in primary schools, 23,980 in secondary schools, 2,026 in special schools, 1,176 employed centrally and 1,463 in pre-school centres. In 2012, there were 51,257 teachers in local authority schools (including centrally employed teachers), compared to 51,276 in 2011.

Table 2.1: Teachers in publicly funded schools by sector, by LA, 2012⁽¹⁾

(1) These figures refer to full-time equivalents of teachers - see background notes 3.2, 3.3 and 4.1.

(2) Includes partnership pre-school centres. Data were not collected from five pre-school centres in Inverclyde.

(3) See background note 2.3 for information on double counting of teacher FTE between primary and pre-school centres.

(4) The 2011 all local authorities total teacher FTE was revised to 51,276 on the 3/5/2012 , see background note 3.4

(5) In September 2012 there were eight grant aided schools, one mainstream with primary and secondary departments, and seven special schools. These schools are included in national totals, but are identified separately in local authority level tables.