Interactive list: Every western Adelaide school’s enrolment number and student/teacher ratio

A small school in the inner-west has the most teachers for each student, data has shown. See how other schools in the west compare.

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Bowden Brompton Community School is one of the best resourced schools in Adelaide’s west.

An analysis of national data from the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority has revealed which schools have the lowest student/teacher ratios.

Bowden Brompton has 4.4 students for every teacher.

Every other school in the west’s top 10 catered for children with special needs, including those with disabilities, Aboriginal children requiring special attention in mainstream schools and students from diverse cultural backgrounds.

In comparison, St Mary’s Memorial School in Glenelg had 20.1 students for every teacher, the highest in the area.

The second highest student/teacher ratio was at St Teresa’s School, Brighton, where there was an average of 20 students for every teacher at the school, followed by Grange Primary School with 19.5 students per teacher.

According to ACARA, the national student/teacher ratio was 13.5 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.

A range of variables also means student/teacher ratios do not necessarily equate directly to class size.

The Education Department said all public schools were funded to ensure agreed average class sizes at every year level were not exceeded.

In each school, average class sizes should not be greater than 26 students across Reception to Year 2, 30 from Years 3-7, 29 from Years 8-10 and 26 in Years 11-12.

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Schools are also funded according to seven categories of advantage and disadvantage, with a particular focus on helping disadvantaged schools keep junior primary classes small.

“Overall class sizes are influenced by how much funding a school receives based on its level of disadvantage, the programs on offer and how it deploys its resources,” a department spokesman said.

“For instance, schools with special units and special classes for disability will have lower ratios.”