Table 601.50.

Pupil/teacher ratios in public and private elementary and secondary schools, by level of education and country: 2013 through 2016

Country	Elementary school (primary)								Junior high school (lower secondary)								Senior high school (upper secondary)
	2013		2014		2015		2016		2013		2014		2015		2016		2013		2014		2015		2016
1	2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		11		12		13
OECD average1	14.9		14.9		15.1		14.9		13.0		12.8		12.8		12.6		13.2		13.1		13.3		12.8
Australia	15.6		15.6		15.4		15.2		---		---		---		---		12.0	2,3	---		12.3	2,3	12.1	2,3
Austria	11.9		12.0		11.8		11.6		9.0		8.8		8.7		8.6		9.9		10.0		10.1		10.1
Belgium	12.7		12.7		12.8		12.8		9.3		9.2		9.5		9.0		9.9		9.9		9.9		9.8
Canada	16.5	4,5	16.6	4,5	17.0	4,5	16.9	4,5	---		---		---		---		13.8		12.8		13.0		12.2
Chile	22.5		21.3		20.9		20.3		24.3		22.8		21.9		21.1		25.1		23.9		23.0		22.1
Czech Republic	18.8		18.7		19.0		19.1		11.2		11.9		11.8		12.0		11.1		11.7		11.1		11.0
Denmark	---		11.9		---		---		---		11.0		---		---		---		13.1		---		---
Estonia	13.0		12.9		13.3		13.2		9.8		9.9		9.5		10.1		14.1	6	14.6	6	15.2		15.3
Finland	13.2		13.3		13.6		13.3		9.0		8.9		9.0		9.0		16.0		16.2		16.5		17.2
France	19.3		19.4		18.7	7	19.4		15.4		15.4		14.6	7	14.7		10.1		10.4		10.0	7	11.3
Germany	15.6		15.4		15.4		15.3		13.6		13.4		13.3		13.2		13.2		13.1		13.0		12.9
Greece	9.5		9.4		---		---		7.3		7.8		---		---		8.1		---		---		---
Hungary	10.6		11.5		11.2		11.0		10.4		10.9		10.6		10.3		12.0		12.5		11.5		11.1
Iceland	10.4		---		10.7		10.8		10.5		---		10.5		10.2		---		---		---		---
Ireland	16.4	7	16.3	7	16.2	7	16.0		---		---		---		---		13.9	2,7	13.9	2,7	13.9	2,7	13.8
Israel	15.3		15.5		15.4		15.4		13.5		12.1		11.8		11.8		10.7	7	10.6		10.8	7	10.9
Italy	12.3		12.4		12.4		11.4		11.7		11.6		11.5		10.9		13.0	7	12.5		12.5		10.4
Japan	17.4		17.1		16.9		16.6		13.9		13.8		13.6		13.4		11.7	6	11.9	6	12.0		11.8
Korea, Republic of	17.3		16.9		16.8		16.5		17.5		16.6		15.7		14.7		15.1		14.5		14.1		13.8
Latvia	11.2		11.2		11.6		11.4		7.8		7.6		7.7		7.8		10.2		10.0		9.7		9.8
Lithuania	10.2		10.2		10.3		10.5		7.6		7.4		7.3		7.3		8.0		8.1		8.1		7.7
Luxembourg	8.8		8.9		10.7		10.5		11.2		10.9		11.0		10.7		7.1		8.9		10.8		9.0
Mexico	27.7		27.4		26.9		26.7		32.2		33.0		33.6		33.9		27.3		20.6		20.0		20.0
Netherlands	16.6	7	16.6		16.6		16.8		16.0	7	16.2		16.0		16.1		18.6	7	19.2	7	18.0		17.9
New Zealand	16.4		16.4		16.5		16.6		16.4		16.2		16.3		16.4		13.3		13.1		12.8		12.6
Norway	10.3		10.3		10.4	7	10.1		9.8		9.7		9.6	7	9.1		10.3	6,8	10.3	6,8	10.3		10.2
Poland	11.1		11.0		11.1		11.4		9.9		10.4		9.7		9.6		11.0		10.9		10.3		10.2
Portugal	13.2		14.0		13.7		13.1		10.4		10.1		10.0		9.8		8.4	6	8.9	6	9.7		9.6
Slovak Republic	16.9		17.2		17.2		17.1		12.5		12.5		11.6		12.3		13.6		13.5		13.5		13.5
Slovenia	16.0		15.9		15.9		14.3		8.2		8.3		8.5		6.1		13.5		13.7		13.4		14.2
Spain	13.8		13.5		13.7		13.6		11.6		11.8		11.9		11.7		11.0		11.3		11.1		10.7
Sweden	12.7		12.7		12.8		13.1		12.0		12.2		12.3		12.4		12.8		13.8		14.4		13.7
Switzerland	13.8		13.8		15.6	7	15.5		10.9		10.8		11.9	7	11.8		---		---		---		12.3	7
Turkey	19.8		19.3		18.4		17.7		19.3		18.4		16.8		15.3		15.6		14.8		14.1		12.6
United Kingdom	20.7		19.6		18.4		16.9		18.5		15.0		14.3		14.8		18.5		16.3		26.1		16.5
United States	15.3		15.4		15.4		15.2		15.4		15.5		15.4		15.3		15.4		15.5		15.4		15.5
Other reporting    countries
Argentina	---		---		---		---		---		---		---		---		---		---		---		---
Brazil	21.2		20.9		24.8		24.4		18.5		17.8		25.0		24.9		15.7		15.4		23.6		24.1
China	16.9		16.2		16.3		16.5		13.4		12.6		12.5		12.3		17.5		16.5		15.6		15.1
Colombia	25.0		24.3		23.8		24.2		26.6		26.3		26.3		26.2		22.9		21.9		23.9		25.6
Costa Rica	13.3		13.2		12.7		12.0		14.1		14.4		14.0		12.8		13.8		14.3		13.9		12.6
India	32.3		31.3		31.5		35.2		29.8		30.5		30.5		27.0		32.1		33.3		33.0		30.3
Indonesia	16.1		16.6		---		14.0		14.4		14.7		---		13.9		16.9		16.6		---		14.4
Russian Federation	20.3		20.2		20.6		21.0		8.9	9	8.8	9	10.4	9	10.6	9	---		---		---		---
Saudi Arabia	10.5		10.8		10.9		11.7		10.4		10.6		---		---		11.2		11.4		---		---
South Africa	32.0		32.8		30.3		30.3		---		---		---		---		---		---		17.1	2	17.1	2

---Not available.

1 Refers to the mean of the data values for all reporting Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, to which each country reporting data contributes equally. The average includes all current OECD countries for which a given year's data are available, even if they were not members of OECD in that year.

2 Junior high school data are included with the senior high school data.

3 Includes only general programs; data on vocational programs are not available.

4 Preprimary data are included with the elementary school data.

5 Junior high school data are included with the elementary school data.

6 Postsecondary non-higher-education data are included with the senior high school data.

7 Public institutions only.

8 Short-cycle higher education data are included with the senior high school data.

9 Senior high school data are included with the junior high school data.

NOTE: The pupil/teacher ratio is the number of full-time-equivalent students divided by the number of full-time-equivalent teachers, including teachers for students with disabilities and other special teachers. All data in this table were calculated using International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011. In this table, elementary school corresponds to ISCED 2011 level 1 (U.S. grades 1 through 6), junior high school corresponds to ISCED 2011 level 2 (U.S. grades 7 through 9), and senior high school corresponds to ISCED 2011 level 3 (U.S. grades 10 through 12).

SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Online Education Database, retrieved August 1, 2019, from https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx. (This table was prepared August 2019).