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Teachers, pupils, schools and teaching posts · 1966–2025.

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Shetland Islands · All school sectors · 2006–2025

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Council statistics

Teacher FTE · all · 2025. Rankings describe values, not council performance.

Shetland Islands317.38

242.005,725.45

Colour scale covers 2006–2025 and the selected year. Island groups are shown separately on the right, at different scales.

ONS boundaries · December 2024 ↗

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Highest to lowestFTE

SourcesScottish Government · Teacher census supplementary statistics 2025 · Table 6.1

Publicly funded teacher full-time equivalents in the selected school sector. All school sectors includes centrally employed teachers and excludes early learning and childcare (ELC).

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Fife 2025: the bulletin says a later correction of fewer than 10 FTE was not incorporated. These are the published figures.

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Approved FOI evidence keeps its own reporting period and definition. It is not combined with the census figures above.

Shetland Islands Council

September employment outcomes

Counts stated in response.

permanent–temporary · peopleRead the evidence Original FOI response · lines 22-25 ↗

Shetland Islands Council

September employment outcomes

Counts stated in response.

permanent–left-teaching · peopleRead the evidence Original FOI response · lines 30-33 ↗