Interactive list: Every regional SA school’s enrolment number and student/teacher ratio

Here is the data on which regional and Hills schools have the highest and lowest ratios of students to teachers.

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September 16, 2019 - 5:46PM

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The schools with Regional South Australia’s most crowded and best resourced classrooms have been revealed.

An analysis of national data from the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority has revealed the schools where teachers have the most students to teach.

The figures show in 2018 in the Regional South Australia region there were more students per teacher at Bridgewater Primary School than any other school.

According to the data, the most up to data that includes all state and private schools nationally, Bridgewater Primary School had 20.1 students for every teacher, the highest in the area.

The second highest student-teacher ratios were at Lobethal Primary School where there was an average of 19.8 students for every teacher at the school.

At Nairne Primary School there were 19.7 students for every teacher, the Regional South Australia region’s third highest.

In contrast there one teacher for every 1.4 students at Oak Valley Aboriginal School, the region’s lowest ratio of students per teacher.

The second lowest ratio was at Marree Aboriginal School where there were 3.3 students per teacher.

The figures show at Kenmore Park Anangu School there were 3.3 students per teacher, the third lowest ratio in the Regional South Australia region.

According to ACARA the national student-teacher ratio was 13.5 students for every teacher.

Across the country independent private schools had the lowest student to teacher ratios with 11.7 students to every teacher.

Government schools had an average of 13.8 students for every teacher while Catholic schools had an average of 14 students for every teacher.

Student-teacher ratios do not take into account teacher aides or non-teaching staff at schools, only the full-time equivalent teachers.

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