NT student to teacher ratios in Darwin, Palmerston, Alice Springs schools
New data has revealed the most crowded classrooms across the Territory, as well as how our student to teacher ratios compare to the rest of Australia. Find out how your school compares here.
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New national data has shone a light on how many students Territory teachers are juggling, with pupil to educator ratios revealed right across NT schools.
Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority 2021 statistics show Nightcliff Primary School had a higher ratio than any other Darwin school at 16.8 students per teacher.
However, this was significantly better than Alice Springs’ highest ratio of 20 students per teacher at both Wallace Rockhole and Willowra schools.
Palmerston’s least crowded school was Woodroffe Primary with an average of 9.6 students per teacher, while its most crowded was Mother Teresa Catholic Primary School at 19.8 pupils for every teacher.
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In the rural and remote category, Bulman School - about 300km east of Katherine - had the highest student to teacher ratio with 59 enrolled students and just two full-time equivalent teachers.
The good news is about two-thirds of Territory schools, both primary and secondary, were below the national student-teacher ratio of 14.5 and 11.9 respectively.
Across the country Catholic schools had the highest national ratios for primary schools with a 15.4 ratio, followed by 14.4 for state schools and 14 for independent schools.
At the secondary school level, state schools had the highest ratio with 12.4, followed by Catholic with 12.2 and 10.5 for independent.
Student-teacher ratios do not take into account teacher aides or non-teaching staff at schools, only the full-time equivalent teachers.
Darwin
Primary
Highest ratio: Nightcliff Primary School at 16.8 students per teacher
Lowest ratio: Haileybury Rendall School at 9.5 students per teacher
Secondary
Highest ratio: Darwin Middle School at 15.7 students per teacher
Lowest ratio: NT School of Distance Education at 4.5 students per teacher
Palmerston
Primary
Highest ratio: Mother Teresa Catholic Primary at 19.8 students per teacher
Lowest ratio: Woodroffe Primary School at 9.6 students per teacher
Secondary
Highest ratio: Palmerston Christian College at 15.6 students per teacher
Lowest ratio: Palmerston College at 12.7 students per teacher
Alice Springs
Primary and secondary
Highest ratio: Wallace Rockhole School and Willowra School, both at 20 students per teacher
Lowest ratio: Bonya School at 2.5 students per teacher
Rural and remote
Primary and secondary
Highest ratio: Bulman School at 29.5 students per teacher
Lowest ratio: Woolaning School at 3.2 students per teacher
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