High Level Summary of Statistics Trend Last update: Friday, November 27, 2009
Class Sizes
Average class sizes in primary have been falling since 1997. Secondary class size information is not generally collected.
Class sizes in publicly funded primary schools
| Percentage of pupils by class size | | percentage in composite classes | average class size |
| P1 to P3 | | P4 to P7 | |
| 18 or fewer | 19 to 25 | more than 25 | | 25 or fewer | 26 to 30 | more than 30 | |
| 1997 | 7 | 40 | 53 | | 45 | 35 | 20 | | 22 | 25 |
| 1998 | 8 | 42 | 50 | | 45 | 35 | 20 | | 22 | 25 |
| 1999 | 9 | 45 | 46 | | 46 | 35 | 19 | | 22 | 25 |
| 2000 | 10 | 47 | 44 | | 46 | 35 | 19 | | 22 | 24 |
| 2001 | 10 | 49 | 41 | | 46 | 35 | 19 | | 23 | 24 |
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| 2002 | 9 | 49 | 41 | | 47 | 35 | 18 | | 24 | 24 |
| 2003 | 10 | 49 | 41 | | 48 | 35 | 17 | | 24 | 24 |
| 2004 | 10 | 49 | 41 | | 48 | 36 | 17 | | 24 | 24 |
| 2005 | 11 | 50 | 39 | | 49 | 35 | 16 | | 24 | 24 |
| 2006 | 11 | 51 | 38 | | 50 | 35 | 15 | | 25 | 24 |
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| 2007 | 12 | 60 | 28 | | 50 | 34 | 16 | | 26 | 23 |
| 2008 | 13 | 63 | 23 | | 51 | 33 | 17 | | 27 | 23 |
| 2009 | 13 | 64 | 23 | | 52 | 32 | 16 | | 27 | 23 |
Source: School Pupil Census 2009
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