Education and children's services facts

• around 1,025,000 pupils attend a maintained secondary or primary school in London where they are taught by a total of 53,100 teachers (1)
  
  
• just under 25,000 (2.4 per cent) of London school children are persistently absent from school (2)
  
  
• 28 per cent of London's working age population are educated to degree level, compared with 18.6 per cent in the UK as a whole (3)
  
  
• the proportion of 11 year-olds in London reaching the required standard in English improved from 60 per cent in 1997 to 80 per cent in 2007, while the proportion reaching the required standard in Maths improved from 59 per cent to 77 per cent (4)
  
  
• there are 11,290 children in the care of London boroughs (5)
  
  
• London has the highest proportion of 17 year-olds in education or work based learning (80 per cent) of any English region (6)
  
  
• 14.1 per cent of young people in care in London achieved five or more good GCSEs (grades A*-C) in 2007, compared with 11.8 per cent of children in care in England as a whole (7)
  
  
• London is home to 30 of England's 100 universities (8)
  

sources

(1) Focus on London 2007, table 2.2 ONS/GLA
(2) Borough indicator profilerwww.go-london.gov.uk/tools/indicatorprofiler.xls Opens in a new window, Government Office for London, March 2007
(3) Focus on London 2007, table 2.16 ONS/GLA
(4) Key stage 2 results: percentage of pupils achieving level 4 or above, London region, DCFS 2007
(5) Table LA118, Children looked after in England Year Ending 31 March 2007, DCSF, Dec 2007
(6) Borough indicator profilerwww.go-london.gov.uk/tools/indicatorprofiler.xls Opens in a new window, Government Office for London, June 2007
(7) Borough indicator profilerwww.go-london.gov.uk/tools/indicatorprofiler.xls Opens in a new window, Government Office for London, April 2007
(8) Focus on London 2007 table 2.15 ONS/GLA