How many students to every teacher at Darwin schools revealed

The latest data reveals the best and worst student to teacher ratios in Darwin schools. View our interactive of every school in the city and see how your’s rates.

Data has revealed the NT's best and worst resourced classrooms.

FOUR of the Top End’s religious schools top the list for best resourced and least crowded education institutions in Darwin, according to national data.

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

According to the 2018 data — the most up to date available — which includes all state and private schools nationally, there was one teacher for every 0.8 students at Northern Territory School of Distance Education the region’s lowest ratio of students per teacher.

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The second lowest ratio was at St John’s Catholic College where there were 8.1 students per teacher.

The figures show at NT Christian College there were 8.2 students per teacher, the third lowest ratio in the Darwin region.

In contrast, in the Darwin region, there were more students per teacher at Holy Family Catholic Primary School than any other school.

The Holy Family Catholic Primary School had 17.8 students for every teacher, the highest in the area.

The second highest student-teacher ratios were at Jingili Primary School where there was an average of 17.1 students for every teacher at the school.

At Milkwood Steiner School there were 16.8 students for every teacher, the Darwin region’s third highest.

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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 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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DARWIN’S LEAST CROWDED

Northern Territory School of Distance Education: 0.8 students per teacher

St John’s Catholic College: 8.1 students per teacher

NT Christian College: 8.2 students per teacher

Haileybury Rendall School: 8.4 students per teacher

O’Loughlin Catholic College: 11.5 students per teacher

Malak Primary School: 11.6 students per teacher

Sanderson Middle School: 12.3 students per teacher

Ludmilla Primary School: 12.3 students per teacher

Nightcliff Middle School: 12.6 students per teacher

Marrara Christian College: 13.4 students per teacher

DARWIN’S MOST CROWDED

Holy Family Catholic Primary School: 17.8 students per teacher

Jingili Primary School: 17.1 students per teacher

Milkwood Steiner School: 16.8 students per teacher

Manunda Terrace Primary School: 16.8 students per teacher

Wagaman Primary School: 16.8 students per teacher

St Mary’s Catholic Primary School: 16.4 students per teacher

Casuarina Senior College: 16.4 students per teacher

Nightcliff Primary School: 16.4 students per teacher

Parap Primary School: 16.2 students per teacher

Wulagi Primary School: 16.2 students per teacher

The following schools are at the top of the least crowded classrooms lists, however they are special needs institutions:

Henbury School: 4.0 students per teacher

Nemarluk School: 4.5 students per teacher

Top End School of Flexible Learning: 6.5 students per teacher