Nursery World - Conservatives have created a 'primary place crisis', says Labour

Hundreds of thousands of primary school children are in ‘supersize’ classes of more than 30 pupils, according to figures from Labour.

The party says that the Conservatives’ promise to reduce class sizes has failed as a record number of children - 102,615 - are being taught in classes of 31 or more pupils, FOI data suggests.

The figures, published on national primary school offer day, are based upon responses from 61 local authorities in England to a Freedom of Information request on the number of pupils in ‘supersize’ classes. Labour has scaled up the number of pupils in large infant classes (28,570) across 4,673 schools to reflect the total number of state-funded primary schools (16,784).

However, it says that the figures could be even higher as the total number of primary schools does not include those that have a ‘primary-phase’, such as all-through schools.

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