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News Release: Summary Results of the 1999-2000 Census of Pre-School Education Centres:July 2000

Table 1
Number of pre-school centres, children and teachers by type of centre: September 1999

Centre type

Number of centres

Total children

Children FTE1

Teachers FTE

Child/teacher
ratio

Staff FTE

Child/staff ratio

Total

2,213

88,799

44,698

1,566

28.5

7,217

6.2

Local Authority

1,343

66,719

34,041

1,335

25.5

4,645

7.3

Partnership2

827

20,458

9,707

181

53.6

2,394

4.1

Independent

43

1,622

950

50

18.8

178

5.3

1 estimate based on the number of half days that children attend
2 includes one opted-out centre

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