Chamber and committees

Question reference: S6W-34443

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: 4 February 2025
Current status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 4 March 2025

Question

To ask the Scottish Government how many shared headteacher roles have been in place in schools in each local authority area in each year since 1999.

Answer

Following clarification, this question refers to multi-establishment leadership models.

The following table shows the number of schools which share a headteacher with at least one other school, known as multi-establishment leadership models, by Local Authority. This does not include Grant-Aided schools or centrally employed headteacher posts. Data from before 2007 is not available.

Table 1. Schools in a multi-establishment leadership model, by Local Authority, 2007-2023.

LA Name	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
Aberdeen City	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	4	2	0	2	0	0	2	2
Aberdeenshire	4	12	10	16	12	8	8	8	16	12	12	14	16	18	16	18	25
Angus	5	7	7	8	6	12	12	12	10	6	6	8	8	8	10	10	12
Argyll and Bute	6	6	12	4	6	8	16	19	21	26	29	32	28	28	32	32	38
City of Edinburgh	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Clackmannanshire	0	0	0	0	2	3	2	0	0	2	2	2	4	2	2	2	2
Dumfries and Galloway	4	6	17	9	15	13	15	64	69	64	68	68	61	64	67	69	64
Dundee City	1	1	1	1	2	0	2	2	4	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	2
East Ayrshire	2	2	13	10	4	6	2	4	4	4	4	4	6	4	6	4	0
East Dunbartonshire	2	2	4	4	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	4	4	2
East Lothian	1	1	1	1	2	2	4	4	2	3	5	6	8	9	4	6	6
East Renfrewshire	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	2	0
Falkirk	0	0	0	0	0	2	7	11	8	8	12	12	6	4	4	4	8
Fife	4	4	10	10	8	11	7	9	20	29	35	38	32	40	42	48	48
Glasgow City	4	2	5	3	3	0	0	3	2	2	4	6	4	6	6	6	10
Highland	28	50	47	59	62	67	72	71	66	72	87	90	95	96	90	83	91
Inverclyde	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Midlothian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	4	6	6	2	4	0
Moray	2	4	4	4	4	6	4	6	6	10	8	8	8	8	8	8	6
Na h-Eileanan Siar	13	10	10	18	16	10	6	12	12	10	12	12	14	22	18	18	15
North Ayrshire	1	0	0	2	4	8	11	13	11	12	12	10	10	6	6	10	12
North Lanarkshire	0	0	0	4	6	4	8	10	4	4	4	9	7	7	13	13	13
Orkney Islands	6	6	6	4	6	4	9	9	8	8	6	6	7	6	10	5	8
Perth and Kinross	0	0	4	8	8	8	10	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	10	8	8
Renfrewshire	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Scottish Borders	18	22	45	43	41	38	42	42	42	38	36	36	32	32	27	28	29
Shetland Islands	6	6	2	4	4	4	6	4	2	4	5	5	4	4	8	2	2
South Ayrshire	0	0	0	0	2	2	6	8	8	10	12	14	12	12	14	10	12
South Lanarkshire	14	14	16	16	18	16	16	12	14	14	14	14	16	14	14	14	14
Stirling	8	12	12	10	13	17	17	16	14	10	10	10	12	13	12	12	12
West Dunbartonshire	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	6	4	4	6	4	6	8	8	8	12
West Lothian	4	6	8	8	8	8	10	8	10	8	6	4	10	10	10	10	16
All Local Authorities	134	173	236	248	257	264	296	364	369	374	409	426	426	437	445	442	469

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