East Melbourne teacher student ratios: Top schools revealed
The schools with the biggest class sizes in Melbourne’s east have been revealed. Check out the government data here.
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The schools with Eastern Melbourne’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 Eastern Melbourne region there were more students per teacher at Doncaster Primary School than any other school.
According to the data, the most up to data that includes all state and private schools nationally, Doncaster Primary School had 19.6 students for every teacher, the highest in the area.
But assistant principal Sandra Bishop said the school’s class sizes “aren’t that bad”.
“We have lots of classes to ensure they stay down,” she said.
The second highest student-teacher ratios were at Blackburn Lake Primary School where there was an average of 18.8 students for every teacher at the school.
At Serpell Primary School there were 18.8 students for every teacher, the Eastern Melbourne region’s third highest.
In contrast there one teacher for every 2.7 students at Cheshire School, the region’s lowest ratio of students per teacher.
The second lowest ratio was at Waratah Special Developmental School where there were 4.3 students per teacher.
The figures show at Bulleen Heights School there were 4.3 students per teacher, the third lowest ratio in the Eastern Melbourne region.
According to ACARA the national student-teacher ratio was 13.5 students for every teacher.
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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.
Eastern Melbourne’s most crowded classrooms
Doncaster Primary School: 19.6 students per teacher
Blackburn Lake Primary School: 18.8 students
Serpell Primary School: 18.8 students
St Gregory the Great School: 18.7 students
Mitcham Primary School: 18.4 students
Doncaster Gardens Primary School: 18.1 students
Rangeview Primary School: 18.0 students
Wheelers Hill Primary School: 17.8 students
Streeton Primary School: 17.8 students
Viewbank Primary School: 17.7 students
Eastern Melbourne’s least crowded classrooms
Cheshire School: 2.7 students per teacher
Waratah Special Developmental School: 4.3 students
Bulleen Heights School: 4.3 students
Glenallen School: 4.8 students
Monash Special Developmental School: 4.8 students
Burwood East Special Developmental School: 5.0 students
Ashwood School: 5.4 students
Berengarra School: 5.5 students
Vermont South Special School: 5.6 students
Heatherwood School: 5.9 students
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