'Crisis' of the 3,000 schools left with no male teachers

MORE than 3,000 primary schools have no male teachers – with some calling the imbalance a “crisis”.

- Matthew Davis

There are fears the shortage could drive vulnerable boys towards dangerous misogynist male role models found on the internet.

With the majority of teaching assistants and lunchtime staff also female, many primary schools are staffed almost entirely by women.

Latest Department for Education figures reveal in England’s 16,755 primary schools there are 3,190 with no male teachers, with 638 having just one part-time male teacher.

With 280 children in the average primary school it means more than a million children attend a primary school without a single fulltime male teacher.

The local authorities with the largest number of such schools are Derbyshire (136), Hamphire (128), Essex (128), North Yorkshire (128) Lancashire (126) and Hertfordshire (116).