The number
of Key Stage 1 classes reported as having more than 30
pupils, but which met legal requirements (which allow
infant classes
of more than 30 in very limited circumstances) on the census day was 1,060 (from a total
of 54,790 classes), 1.9 per
cent of all Key Stage 1 classes, up from 1.6 per
cent in January 2010.
The number
of infant pupils in classes
of more than the statutory limit
of 30
pupils fell from 100,765 (6.2 per
cent) in January 2015 to 95,210 (5.8 per
cent) in January 2016.