High Level Summary of Statistics Trend Last update: Wednesday, 23 January, 2013
Teacher Numbers
Full-time equivalent number of teachers:
| | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 |
| School-based teachers | 49,739 | 50,757 | 51,886 | 52,446 | 51,765 | 50,599 | 49,821 | 49,065 | 48,738 |
| Pre-school teachers | n/a | 1,702 | 1,704 | 1,689 | 1,650 | 1,630 | 1,563 | 1,486 | 1,496 |
| Visiting teachers | 1,703 | 1,450 | 1,157 | 964 | 933 | 772 | 714 | 881 | 1,176 |
The total number of teachers based in pre-school, primary, secondary and special schools, or visiting specialists, was 51,410, which is 21 fewer than in 2011.
Pupil teacher ratio in publicly funded schools remained the same at 13.4 in 2012.
Pupil teacher ratios:
| | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 |
| Primary | 17.6 | 17.0 | 16.2 | 15.8 | 15.7 | 15.8 | 15.8 | 16.0 | 16.3 |
| Secondary | 12.7 | 12.3 | 12.0 | 11.6 | 11.7 | 11.9 | 12.1 | 12.3 | 12.2 |
| Special | 3.7 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 3.5 | 3.4 |
Further Information
Teacher Census Results