Table 6

TABLE 6: Full-time vacancy ¹ rates in local authority maintained schools by grade.

Years: January 1997, 2001 to 2009

Coverage: England

Vacancies as a percentage of teachers in post²

Number of

vacancies

1997

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009 (p)

NURSERY AND PRIMARY

All vacancies

Number

1,090

2,110

1,800

1,110

780

740

710

660

870

760

Rate

0.6

1.2

0.6

0.5

0.4

0.5

Grade ^{3, 4}

Head or Deputy/Assistant

0.9

1.2

0.8

0.7

0.8

0.7

0.8

290

Head

0.6

0.8

0.7

0.5

0.7

0.6

110

Deputy head/Assistant head

1.3

1.8

1.2

1.1

0.8

0.9

0.7

180

Classroom teacher

0.5

1.2

1.1

0.6

0.4

0.3

0.4

480

SECONDARY

All vacancies

Number

730

2,590

2,450

2,050

1,630

1,550

1,340

1,210

1,470

1,310

Rate

0.4

1.4

1.3

1.1

0.9

0.8

0.7

0.6

0.8

0.7

Grade ^{3, 4}

Head or Deputy/Assistant

0.7

0.6

0.5

0.6

0.4

Head

0.8

0.9

0.5

0.9

0.5

0.6

0.7

Deputy head/Assistant head

0.7

0.5

0.6

0.5

0.4

0.3

Classroom teacher

0.4

1.5

1.4

1.2

0.9

0.7

0.8

1,230

SPECIAL

All vacancies

Number

200

280

290

240

220

190

180

170

160

Rate

1.5

2.2

2.4

1.8

1.6

1.4

Grade ^{3, 4}

Head or Deputy/Assistant

1.9

1.7

1.6

1.2

1.3

1.5

1.3

0.9

1.3

Head

1.2

1.1

0.8

0.9

1.6

1.2

0.7

1.1

Deputy head/Assistant head

2.7

2.3

1.4

1.2

1.5

1.4

1.1

1.4

Classroom teacher

1.4

2.3

2.6

2.2

1.7

1.6

1.4

1.5

1.4

130

TOTAL

All vacancies

Number

2,020

4,980

4,540

3,410

2,630

2,480

2,230

2,040

2,510

2,240

Rate

0.6

1.4

1.2

0.9

0.7

0.6

0.7

0.6

Grade ^{3, 4}

Head or Deputy/Assistant

1.1

0.9

0.7

0.8

0.6

0.7

410

Head

0.7

0.8

0.7

0.6

0.5

0.8

0.6

0.7

140

Deputy head/Assistant head

1.2

1.3

0.9

0.8

0.7

0.6

0.7

260

Classroom teacher

0.5

1.4

1.3

0.7

0.6

0.5

0.7

0.6

1,830

Source: 618g survey

(p) Provisional

1. Advertised vacancies for full-time permanent appointments (or appointments of at least one term's duration). Includes vacancies being filled on a temporary basis of less than one term. See notes to editors for further details.

2. Teachers in post include full-time qualified regular teachers in (or on secondment from) maintained nursery and primary schools, plus the primary portion of full-time regular divided service, peripatetic, advisory and miscellaneous teachers.

3. The number of teachers in post by grade is from the 618g survey for 2001 onwards, previous years were estimated using the Database of Teacher Records.

4. The role of assistant head was created in 2001.

Totals may not appear to equal the sum of the component parts because of rounding.

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