How many pupils enrolled in Scottish schools in 2003-04?

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Request for Question Clarification by leli-ga on 19 Oct 2003 01:39 PDT

Hi there

I don't think the 2003-4 figures are available yet. Would you be
interested in official statistics for these:

Actual numbers for 2000, 2001 and 2002
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Number of pupils in:
pre-school
primary schools
secondary schools
special schools
independent schools

Projections published in 26 August 2003 for pupil totals up to 2013
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Table 1 Number of pupils by school sector (This includes independent
schools)
Table 2 Number of pupils by age receiving publicly funded education
Table 3 Number of pupils by stage in publicly funded primary and
secondary schools


Schools Census September 2002
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A range of statistics, mostly about publicly funded schools


Please let me know if these statistics would be a satisfactory answer
for you.

Thanks - Leli

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Clarification of Question by meanie2-ga on 23 Oct 2003 05:42 PDT

Your answers are fine thank you.

Thanks for getting back to me.

The figures you want are in a table on the Scottish Executive website
called:

"Pupil Projections for Scotland
Number of pupils (thousands) at September by school sector"

2002 - actual figures
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Publicly funded schools

pre-school   57,700
primary     413,700
secondary   316,900
special ed    8,000
total       796,300

Independent schools

total        29,000

2003 -  projections
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Publicly funded schools

pre-school   57,600
primary     404,700
secondary   320,200
special ed    7,700
total       789,400

Independent schools 

total        28,200

There are figures for each year from 2000-2013 in the table, plus
other information in the same document:

PUPIL PROJECTIONS FOR SCOTLAND, 2003
26 August, 2003
A Scottish Executive National Statistics Publication
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00282-00.asp


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You may also want to see:


PROVISIONAL PUPIL INFORMATION FROM THE SEPTEMBER 2002 SCHOOL CENSUS
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00245-00.asp

You can search through a range of government publications on education
at:

Publications Online - Education
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/publications/subjects.aspx?subtreeid=464&subtreelevel=0

New publications should appear here:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/publist.aspx?theme=37&pillar=people


I hope this information meets your needs, but please feel free to ask
for clarification on any point.

Best Wishes - Leli



Search strategy:

I started with the statistics page for the Scottish Executive and
browsed through some of the links.
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/topics/?pageid=62

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Request for Answer Clarification by meanie2-ga on 25 Oct 2003 00:27 PDT

Thank you for your quick and accurate info. I also asked the same
question on the same day about pupils in British Clumbia schools. Have
you found this info?

Thank you again. RC Mitchell

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Clarification of Answer by leli-ga on 25 Oct 2003 02:37 PDT

Thanks for your message - I'm glad the Scottish info was useful. 

A different researcher, justaskscott, was working on your British
Columbia question. If you want the figures he uncovered, I'm afraid
you'll need to post a message on that question too!
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=267597

Hope this doesn't all seem too complicated if you are a first-time
customer and still finding your way round the Google Answers set-up.

Thanks - Leli