High Level Summary of Statistics Trend Last update: February, 2012
Class Sizes
The percentage of P1-P3 pupils in class sizes of 18 or fewer increased from 12.7 per cent in 2006 to 21.6 per cent in 2010, before decreasing to 20.23 per cent in 2011. Secondary class size information is not generally collected.
Class sizes in publicly funded primary schools
| | Percentage of pupils by class size, P1 -P3 pupils (1) | Average Class Size (2) |
| Year | 18 or Fewer | 19-25 | more than 25 | P1-P3 | Primary |
| 2006 | 12.7 | 50.7 | 36.6 | 23.6 | 23.2 |
| 2007 | 15.3 | 58.9 | 25.8 | 22.8 | 22.8 |
| 2008 | 15.5 | 62.6 | 21.9 | 22.6 | 22.7 |
| 2009 | 16.1 | 62.9 | 21 | 22.5 | 22.5 |
| 2010 | 21.6 | 53.6 | 24.8 | 22.4 | 22.5 |
| 2011 | 20.23 | 56.7 | 23.2 | 22.5 | 22.7 |
(1) The percentage of P1-P3 pupils in classes of 18 or fewer include two-teacher classes with 36 or less. Classes taught by two teachers at all times are treated as two classes of half the size.
(2) Data refer to the average class size of pupils in each stage, not the average class size of single stage classes. The total average class size is calculated on a different basis than the P1 to P3 class sizes.
(3) Pupil numbers were corrected on 01 February 2012 to adjust for a two teacher class in P1 which had been treated as a large class.
Source: Summary Statistics for Schools in Scotland 2011
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