Education and Skills in Your Area - Government Office Region: North East

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Number of Specialist Schools

	1997	2007	Difference
Berwick-upon-Tweed Constituency	0	3	3
Bishop Auckland Constituency	1	8	7
Blaydon Constituency	1	5	4
Blyth Valley Constituency	0	1	1
City of Durham Constituency	0	6	6
Darlington Constituency	1	5	4
Easington Constituency	0	6	6
Gateshead East and Washington West Constituency	0	7	7
Hartlepool Constituency	0	7	7
Hexham Constituency	2	4	2
Houghton and Washington East Constituency	1	6	5
Jarrow Constituency	1	5	4
Middlesbrough Constituency	0	7	7
Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland Constituency	0	3	3
Newcastle upon Tyne Central Constituency	1	2	1
Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend Constituency	0	7	7
Newcastle upon Tyne North Constituency	2	3	1
North Durham Constituency	1	7	6
North Tyneside Constituency	0	4	4
North West Durham Constituency	0	5	5
Redcar Constituency	1	7	6
Sedgefield Constituency	0	6	6
South Shields Constituency	1	3	2
Stockton North Constituency	0	6	6
Stockton South Constituency	0	5	5
Sunderland North Constituency	0	2	2
Sunderland South Constituency	0	6	6
Tyne Bridge Constituency	0	2	2
Tynemouth Constituency	2	5	3
Wansbeck Constituency	1	6	5

North East Region	16	149	133

England	228	2,799	2,571

Number of Leading Edge Partnerships

Number of Full Service Extended Schools

	2004/05
Berwick-upon-Tweed Constituency	1
Bishop Auckland Constituency	1
Blaydon Constituency	0
Blyth Valley Constituency	0
City of Durham Constituency	0
Darlington Constituency	2
Easington Constituency	0
Gateshead East and Washington West Constituency	0
Hartlepool Constituency	1
Hexham Constituency	0
Houghton and Washington East Constituency	0
Jarrow Constituency	0
Middlesbrough Constituency	1
Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland Constituency	0
Newcastle upon Tyne Central Constituency	0
Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend Constituency	1
Newcastle upon Tyne North Constituency	0
North Durham Constituency	0
North Tyneside Constituency	1
North West Durham Constituency	0
Redcar Constituency	1
Sedgefield Constituency	0
South Shields Constituency	1
Stockton North Constituency	1
Stockton South Constituency	0
Sunderland North Constituency	0
Sunderland South Constituency	1
Tyne Bridge Constituency	1
Tynemouth Constituency	1
Wansbeck Constituency	0

North East Region	14

England	137

Number of Operational Academies

	2007
Berwick-upon-Tweed Constituency	0
Bishop Auckland Constituency	0
Blaydon Constituency	0
Blyth Valley Constituency	0
City of Durham Constituency	0
Darlington Constituency	1
Easington Constituency	0
Gateshead East and Washington West Constituency	0
Hartlepool Constituency	0
Hexham Constituency	0
Houghton and Washington East Constituency	0
Jarrow Constituency	0
Middlesbrough Constituency	2
Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland Constituency	1
Newcastle upon Tyne Central Constituency	0
Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend Constituency	0
Newcastle upon Tyne North Constituency	0
North Durham Constituency	0
North Tyneside Constituency	0
North West Durham Constituency	0
Redcar Constituency	0
Sedgefield Constituency	0
South Shields Constituency	0
Stockton North Constituency	0
Stockton South Constituency	0
Sunderland North Constituency	0
Sunderland South Constituency	0
Tyne Bridge Constituency	0
Tynemouth Constituency	0
Wansbeck Constituency	0

North East Region	4

England	83

Number of Specialist Schools - in September 2007 there were 2,799 operational specialist schools up from 228 in September 1997.

Number of Leading Edge Partnerships - in 2003 there were 107 leading edge partnerships.

Number of Full Service Extended Schools - in 2004/05 there were 137 full service extended schools.

Number of Operational Academies - in September 2007 there were 83 operational academies.