students per teacher - Source frequency: annual · Methodology · Corrections
Australia's student to teacher ratio was 12.8 students per teacher as of January 2025. Full-time equivalent school students per full-time equivalent teaching staff, across all affiliations and school levels. Class size shapes how much individual attention students receive. The ratio is the standard national measure of teaching capacity relative to enrolments. Data is sourced from ABS Schools (Cat. 4221.0) - Table 53a, all affiliations and levels and updated annually.
Full-time equivalent school students per full-time equivalent teaching staff, across all affiliations and school levels.
Class size shapes how much individual attention students receive. The ratio is the standard national measure of teaching capacity relative to enrolments.
Lower is better
Source: ABS Schools (Cat. 4221.0) - Table 53a, all affiliations and levels
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (ABS Schools (Cat. 4221.0) - Table 53a, all affiliations and levels), updated annually. Our pipeline fetches the machine-readable version automatically and converts it to the standardised format shown here.
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