High Level Summary of Statistics Trend Last update: Thursday, March 20, 2008
Class Sizes
Average class sizes in primary have been falling since 1997. Secondary class size information is not generally collected.
Classes sizes in publicly funded schools | Percentage of pupils by 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 | | percentage in composite classes | average class size |
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 |
Source: School Pupil Census 2007
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