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Minister for Health. Education and the Arts

Legislative Assembly Question No 178

Education - Class Sizes

Mr Wood - asked the Minister for Health, Education and the Arts on 31 May 1990:

How do the sizes of ACT school classes compare with classes in

(a) other States; and

(b) Australia generally in each of the categories of -

(i) infants;

(ii) primary;

(iii) junior secondary; and

(iv) senior secondary.

Mr Humphries: The answer to lair Hoods question is as follows:

The only data the ACT Department of Education has access to on national comparisons of class sizes for government schools are those contained in the 1988 Australian Teachers Federations National Survey of Public Schools.

This report provides class size distributions for each State and Territory. A copy of the relevant table is enclosed.

The ACT Department of Education collects class size information from its schools in July each year. The following table presents the ACT results of the last survey in July 1989.

UNDER 21 UNDER 26 UNDER 31 CLASS (b)

PRIMARY SCHOOLS:

YEAR K 12.5 61.5 99.0 24:1

JUNIOR (YEAR K-2) 8.1 33.3 84.7 26.6

UPPER (YEAR 3-6) 2.8 13.8 65.8 28.9

HIGH SCHOOLS (c) 14.3 43.5 93.2 24.8

SECONDARY COLLEGES (c) 55.8 98.6 100.0 18.6

Source: ACT Department of Education July School Census

(a) Excludes special classes. (b) Average students per class derived by dividing total class

. student enrolment by the number of classes.

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