Question reference: S5W-28717
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 27 April 2020
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Current status: Answered by John Swinney on 5 May 2020
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) primary and (b) secondary school pupils there were in each local authority area in (i) 2012 and (ii) 2019, also broken down by how many had additional support needs.
Answer
Statistics on the number of pupils in the primary and secondary sectors in each local authority and the number of these pupils with additional support needs are published in the Pupil Census Supplementary Statistics .
The number of pupils in primary and secondary schools in each local authority in 2012 and 2019 may be found in Table 6.2 and Table 7.2 respectively of the 2019 edition of this publication: https://www.gov.scot/publications/pupil-census-supplementary-statistics/ . The number of pupils with additional support needs in primary and secondary schools in each local authority in 2019 may be found in Table 6.10 and Table 7.5 respectively of the same publication.
The number of pupils with additional support needs in primary and secondary schools in each local authority in 2012 may be found in the Table 6.10 and Table 7.5 respectively of the 2012 edition of this publication: https://www2.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/School-Education/dspupcensus/pupcensus2012.
The Pupil Census collects information on the number of pupils who require additional support to access education not the number of pupils who have been diagnosed with specific needs. Differences in the assessment and recording of additional support needs between local authorities are likely responsible for some of the variation in figures between individual authorities.