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Independent School Census
29/04/2008
Scotland's Chief Statistician today published a range of statistics relating to pupils in Scotland's publicly funded schools.
Some of the main findings are:
- The number of pupils in independent schools increased by 462 to 30,981
- This increase is relatively large compared with the fairly stable numbers over the past decade. With the fall in the number of pupils in the population there has therefore been an increase in the percentage of school pupils who are in independent schools
- There was a total of 3,396 teachers, an increase of 62 over the 2006 figure. This equates to 9.1 pupils per teacher in 2007. Eighty-six per cent of teachers were registered with the General Teaching Council - Scotland
National statistics are produced by professionally independent statistical staff.