West Melbourne teacher student ratios: How many students are in your child’s classroom?

The most crowded classrooms in Melbourne’s west have been revealed, with not even 50 portables on ovals and five tables saving one college from making the top 10. See how your school fared.

The schools with western Melbourne’s most crowded and best resourced classrooms have been revealed.

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

The figures show in 2018 there were more students per teacher at Williamstown Primary School than any other school in Melbourne’s west.

According to the data, which includes all state and private schools nationally, Williamstown Primary School had 18.5 students for every teacher, the highest in the area.

The second highest student-teacher ratios were at Alamanda K-9 College, also one of the region’s fastest-growing schools, where there was an average of 18.4 students for every teacher at the school.

The school put almost 50 portables on to an oval to meet demand and runs five timetables to limit the number of students outside at lunch and recess to 500.

Principal Lynette Jobson last year said the school had to “think outside the box” to accommodate the huge number of students.

At Williamstown North Primary School there were 18.3 students for every teacher, the third highest in the west.

In contrast, there was one teacher for every 3.8 students at Western Autistic School, the region’s lowest ratio of students per teacher.

The second lowest ratio was at Furlong Park School For Deaf Children where there were 5.2 students per teacher.

The figures show at Jennings Street School there were 5.4 students per teacher, the third lowest ratio in the Western Melbourne region.

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

Across the country independent private schools had the lowest 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.