Nevertheless, Leigh's computer-pupil ratio is impressive, with 700 new iMacs running Apple and Windows programs, as well as existing PC machines.
British schools have more computers per pupil than almost every other European country, but our computing lessons are still "highly unsatisfactory", a group of leading scientists has warned.
Despite more money, more teachers and more computers per pupil, student achievement in K-12 education has been stagnant for forty years.
Such students are more likely to have smaller classes, more guidance counselors, nurses, and psychologists, more computers per pupil, better textbooks and instructional equipment, richer curricula, and better libraries.
Dingle Community Primary School, Kingswinford, West Midlands: purchase a class set of Raspberry Pi computers so pupils can explore computing through building their own machines.
The ratio of computers to pupils is one to one.
Moreover, down the line, more computer-literate pupils will mean a better workforce.But it is not as simple as it sounds.
In many schools, IT is taught in classrooms with no electricity, let alone access to computers, and pupils are asked to copy out pictures of a desk monitor and keyboard into their notebooks.
One Leeds head said he had been planning to spend the money on tablet computers for pupils but would not now be able to do so.
Her school offers four full-time teachers, two part-time teachers in art and music and 3.6 computers for each pupil.
Teachers lacking the confidence to teach pupils computer programming skills need to change the way they approach their subject, a pioneering educator has said.
