Table 3.
Sociodemographic characteristics of primary-school staff, primary-school students, secondary-school staff, and secondary-school students who participated in any SIS round, 2020–2021.
| Primary Staff | Primary students | Secondary staff | Secondary students | All | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | – | 1891 (100) | 4654 (100) | 5852 (100) | 10,188 (100) | 22585 (100) |
| Transmission Sep-2020 | Low | 647 (34.2) | 1523 (32.7) | 2126 (36.3) | 4114 (40.4) | 8410 (37.2) |
| High | 1244 (65.8) | 3131 (67.3) | 3726 (63.7) | 6074 (59.6) | 14175 (62.8) | |
| School rural/urban | Rural | 177 (9.4) | 594 (12.8) | 322 (5.5) | 545 (5.3) | 1638 (7.3) |
| Urban city and town | 739 (39.1) | 2001 (43.0) | 2849 (48.7) | 6056 (59.4) | 11645 (51.6) | |
| Urban conurbation | 975 (51.6) | 2059 (44.2) | 2681 (45.8) | 3587 (35.2) | 9302 (41.2) | |
| Age group (years) | <5 years | 0 (0.0) | 346 (7.5) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 346 (1.5) |
| 5-9 years | 0 (0.0) | 3269 (71.1) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 3269 (14.6) | |
| 10-14 years | 0 (0.0) | 981 (21.3) | 0 (0.0) | 8325 (82.1) | 9306 (41.6) | |
| 15+ years | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1814 (17.9) | 1814 (8.1) | |
| <35 years | 502 (26.9) | 0 (0.0) | 1879 (32.5) | 0 (0.0) | 2381 (10.6) | |
| 35-44 years | 495 (26.5) | 0 (0.0) | 1712 (29.6) | 0 (0.0) | 2207 (9.9) | |
| 45-54 years | 559 (29.9) | 0 (0.0) | 1383 (23.9) | 0 (0.0) | 1942 (8.7) | |
| 55+ years | 312 (16.7) | 0 (0.0) | 811 (14.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1123 (5.0) | |
| Data not available | 23 | 58 | 67 | 49 | 197 | |
| Gender | Male | 183 (9.8) | 2322 (50.6) | 1532 (26.5) | 5049 (49.9) | 9086 (40.6) |
| Female | 1683 (90.2) | 2270 (49.4) | 4244 (73.5) | 5076 (50.1) | 13273 (59.4) | |
| Data not available | 25 | 62 | 76 | 63 | 226 | |
| Ethnicity | Asian/Asian British | 96 (5.2) | 528 (11.6) | 222 (3.9) | 617 (6.1) | 1463 (6.6) |
| Black/African/Caribbean/Black British | 12 (0.6) | 114 (2.5) | 56 (1.0) | 222 (2.2) | 404 (1.8) | |
| Mixed/Multiple ethnic groups | 20 (1.1) | 264 (5.8) | 118 (2.1) | 446 (4.4) | 848 (3.8) | |
| Other ethnic group | 6 (0.3) | 51 (1.1) | 30 (0.5) | 94 (0.9) | 181 (0.8) | |
| White | 1726 (92.8) | 3596 (79.0) | 5327 (92.6) | 8698 (86.3) | 19347 (87.0) | |
| Data not available | 31 | 101 | 99 | 111 | 342 | |
| IMD 2019 quintiles | 1 | 425 (23.0) | 1257 (27.5) | 924 (16.2) | 2248 (22.4) | 4854 (21.9) |
| 2 | 369 (19.9) | 985 (21.6) | 1213 (21.2) | 2081 (20.7) | 4648 (21.0) | |
| 3 | 315 (17.0) | 715 (15.7) | 1077 (18.8) | 1653 (16.4) | 3760 (16.9) | |
| 4 | 383 (20.7) | 877 (19.2) | 1259 (22.0) | 1924 (19.1) | 4443 (20.0) | |
| 5 | 358 (19.4) | 731 (16.0) | 1244 (21.8) | 2148 (21.4) | 4481 (20.2) | |
| Data not available | 41 | 89 | 135 | 134 | 399 | |
| Key Stage (year group) | KS-1 | – | 1848 (40.3) | – | 0 (0.0) | 1848 (12.6) |
| KS-2 | – | 2743 (59.7) | – | 0 (0.0) | 2743 (18.7) | |
| KS-3 | – | 0 (0.0) | – | 7284 (72.0) | 7284 (49.5) | |
| KS-4 | – | 0 (0.0) | – | 1658 (16.4) | 1658 (11.3) | |
| KS-5 | – | 0 (0.0) | – | 1168 (11.6) | 1168 (7.9) | |
| Data not available | – | 63 | – | 78 | 141 | |
| Job group (staff only) | Senior leader | 172 (9.3) | – | 453 (7.9) | – | 625 (8.2) |
| Middle leader | 115 (6.2) | – | 1180 (20.5) | – | 1295 (17.0) | |
| Teacher | 491 (26.6) | – | 2032 (35.3) | – | 2523 (33.2) | |
| TA/Special Ed | 598 (32.4) | – | 528 (9.2) | – | 1126 (14.8) | |
| Admin/Pastoral | 187 (10.1) | – | 938 (16.3) | – | 1125 (14.8) | |
| Cater/Clean/Maintenance | 147 (8.0) | – | 226 (3.9) | – | 373 (4.9) | |
| Other | 133 (7.2) | – | 405 (7.0) | – | 538 (7.1) | |
| Data not available | 48 | – | 90 | – | 138 | |
| 1 or more vaccine doses by round 6 | No | 266 (14.1) | – | 779 (13.3) | – | 1045 (13.5) |
| Yes | 1625 (85.9) | – | 5073 (86.7) | – | 6698 (86.5) |
IMD = Index of multiple deprivation.
Key stage is a stage of the state educational system in England. Primary school includes KS-1 (school years 1 and 2, ages 5–7) and KS-2 (years 3–6, ages 7–11), while secondary school include KS-3 (years 7–9, age 11–14), KS-4 (10–11, ages 14–16) and KS-5 (years 12–13, ages 16–18).
TA= Teaching assistant.