Table 3.

Attack rate with 95% confidence intervals by education setting for staff and students in primary and secondary schools reporting a COVID-19 outbreak during the first half of the autumn term (31 August to 18 October 2020) in England.

	School type
	Primary	Secondary	Both settings
Total number of schools	100	79	179
Student cases	328	1105	1433
Total students	39,027	91,919	130,946
Student attack rate,% (95% CI)	0.84% (0.75–0.94%)	1.20 (1.13–1.28%)	1.09% (1.04–1.15%)
Staff cases	471	410	881
Total staff	5852	11,510	17,362
Staff attack rate,% (95% CI)	8.05% (7.37–8.78%)	3.56% (3.24–3.92%)	5.07% (4.75–5.41%)
Teaching staff cases	378	284	662
Total teaching staff	3852	7146	10,998
Teaching staff attack rate,% (95% CI)	9.81% (8.90–10.82%)	3.97% (3.54–4.46%)	6.02% (5.59–6.48%)
Non-teaching staff cases	93	126	219
Total non-teaching staff	2000	4364	6364
Non-teaching staff attack rate,% (95% CI)	4.65% (3.79–5.69%)	2.89% (2.42–3.44%)	3.44% (3.01–3.93%)
All cases	799	1515	2314
Total population (staff & students)	44,879	103,429	148,308
Attack rate,% (95% CI)	1.78% (1.66–1.91%)	1.46% (1.39–15.4%)	1.56% (1.50 −1.62%)