What is the proportion of female to male teachers in your school?

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Where I'm a governor, there is only one male class teacher out of 16 (including two job shares) and the Head is male. In a friend's school, the proportions are more like 50:50. I once raised this with the head who said fairly defensively that they simply appoint the best person for the job regardless of gender. However, given that I'm sure the other school does the same, I wonder what the difference is?

5 classes, not 6.

At my DC's primary there are 8 class teachers and 7 are female. The head is female too. There is one male TA and a male sports coach.

22 male 43 female

2 out of 8. Last year was 3, year before was 2, before that only 1 as far back as I remember (7th year at school). No other male staff at all, even the caretaker is female.

No males in leadership roles either.

4 classes, 100% female staff. So often I hear 'we need a male teacher' from parents. I pointed out that having a penis is less important than being good at their job. Yes, it's good to have positive male role models but being male isn't enough on its own.

teachers about 25% male with more male PE staff
head male
all TAs and lunchtime assistants etc female

One head, one deputy, 9 teachers, a number of TAs, every single one female apart from the Deputy HT, who is a man. Oh, and the caretaker is a man, and I think all the visiting PE staff who come from a PE company thing are men. Infants School. Such a shame that there aren't more male classroom teachers and TAs, and that the only man in the place is in a leadership position.

Head - man
Deputy head - woman
Assistant head & SENCO - man
15 class teachers - 5 men 10 women

Then in ks1 it breaks down to 2 men and 4 women and in ks2, 3 men and 6 women

Our school has about 18 teachers, similar number of TAs, Head and Deputy. Of these, 1 teacher is male, as are the Head and Deputy. We also have 1 male TA who was recruited to work specifically with 1 pupil. I can't see the ratio changing; the Head seems to like to recruit young blonde ladies.

Junior school 1/3 male teachers.

All the TAs are female though.

10 teaching staff
11 TAs
1 head
2 office staff
loads of midday assistants, cooking staff etc

all female.

male caretaker, visiting music teachers and sports coach.

We had 1 male teacher who left at the end of last year.

I am a governor and I asked about it, especially as we have loads of kids from families where dad is absent.

The answer was that we appoint best candidate. To be honest, we have had trouble getting staff full stop.

Prep School - about 66% male, 33% female.

Pre-Prep Department - 100% female!

I don't know if being private makes a difference with having more men in the Juniors - eg we do lots of specialist sport every day.

Leadership is about 50/50 male-female if you include both schools.

ds has just started boys grammar, teaching staff looks about 50/50

It was one reason I liked the school. I think boys do need male role models and mentors. How you balance that with selecting the best teacher each time at interview I don't know. It bothers me that the only men currently in our school are in very stereotypical roles (sport/caretaker)

8 teachers overall - 1 is male. Head is female. One of the TAs is a man, plus the caretaker, sports coach and a couple of peripatetic music teachers.

5 TA female 1TA male
6 Teachers female 1 male

HT and 3 office staff all female

caretaker male.

small school of 4 classes.

7 to 0......

full time teachers 3 male 5 female plus 2 male and 1 female PT and male HT.

22 male 43 female

That must be a very large primary, how many form entry is it?

Large infant school, 12 class teachers (some part time) all women. HT and DHT both women, all office staff women. The two caretakers are men, and the football and gymnastics coaches who sometimes come in are men, but they don't work with all of the children. Our associated junior school has four male teachers, I think, plus a male HT.

The friend who teaches in a school with a more even mix has previously taught in two schools where the staff was almost overwhelmingly female. She says she prefers the current school because the staff are less cliquey and the general atmosphere in the staffroom and amongst adults at the school is better.

I don't think it is in any way a matter of a man being a better teacher - in my experience, my standout teachers were women - but it is good for children to experience a more even gender mix.

3 form entry infant school, no male members of staff at all.
The junior school it feeds into has 2 male staff, one of whom is the head. I find it depressing that even though primary teaching is incredibly female dominated, men are disproportionately represented in smt.

All staff are female. The only male staff are the caretaker, music teacher who visits once a week and a sports coach from the local sports centre. The Head was male but retired some years ago.

I'm currently teacher training and on the later years course (7-11) it's a 50:50 split of trainee teachers

Early years it's about 30% male

At my own dd's school there are 5 male teachers, a male head and visiting sports coach and music teacher that are both male

2 form entry primary

A large 2 form entry primary -

Male head teacher
Male Deputy Head

3 other male teachers, all the rest are female. No male teachers in KS1.

I wish there were more.