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

Table 6
Number of pre-school centres, children and teachers by local authority area: September 1999

Local authority area

Number of centres

Total children

Children FTE1

Teachers FTE

Child/ teacher ratio

Staff FTE

Child/staff ratio

Scotland

2,213

88,799

44,698

1,566

28.5

7,217

6.2

Aberdeen City

95

3,838

2,083

114.1

18.3

373.9

5.6

Aberdeenshire

137

4,287

1,878

77.3

24.3

311.6

6.0

Angus

79

2,069

965

34.7

27.8

153.4

6.3

Argyll & Bute

76

1,655

622

8.4

74.0

122.9

5.1

Clackmannanshire

24

1,006

500

18.0

27.8

87.3

5.7

Dumfries & Galloway

61

2,293

955

35.5

26.9

135.3

7.1

Dundee City

58

2,735

1,597

58.4

27.4

265.5

6.0

East Ayrshire

33

1,855

916

27.5

33.3

120.5

7.6

East Dunbartonshire

50

1,998

945

24.8

38.1

163.1

5.8

East Lothian

36

1,731

691

44.7

15.5

122.7

5.6

East Renfrewshire

32

1,740

883

23.9

36.9

139.0

6.4

Edinburgh, City of

158

7,072

4,102

179.8

22.8

688.4

6.0

Eilean Siar

31

506

216

3.8

56.8

46.5

4.6

Falkirk

40

2,219

1,119

40.3

27.8

152.4

7.3

Fife

120

5,089

2,593

110.3

23.5

416.7

6.2

Glasgow City

177

11,417

6,549

178.4

36.7

930.3

7.0

Highland

192

3,705

1,708

50.9

33.6

328.0

5.2

Inverclyde

34

1,536

803

17.1

46.9

150.2

5.3

Midlothian

29

1,541

742

34.1

21.8

114.7

6.5

Moray

63

1,719

834

23.9

34.9

140.6

5.9

North Ayrshire

64

2,447

1,129

36.3

31.1

176.7

6.4

North Lanarkshire

107

5,989

2,792

72.7

38.4

434.3

6.4

Orkney Islands

20

338

136

9.9

13.8

23.8

5.7

Perth & Kinross

74

2,162

1,104

49.7

22.2

203.5

5.4

Renfrewshire

58

3,174

1,668

28.5

58.5

262.8

6.3

Scottish Borders

69

1,899

866

39.4

22.0

149.1

5.8

Shetland Islands

26

493

229

13.2

17.3

45.5

5.0

South Ayrshire

35

1,698

775

32.0

24.2

124.2

6.2

South Lanarkshire

113

4,851

2,360

71.2

33.1

406.1

5.8

Stirling

44

1,571

803

36.3

22.1

125.5

6.4

West Dunbartonshire

30

1,869

1,003

19.6

51.2

140.9

7.1

West Lothian

48

2,297

1,134

51.5

22.0

161.3

7.0

1 estimate based on the number of half days that children attend

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