Band 6+: The bar chart shows the average size class in primary and lower secondary schools in 6 countries compared to the world average in 2006.

The given bar chart below compares the average number of primary and secondary school students among 6 different countries and world’s standard statistics in 2006. Overall, the average figure for middle school pupils was selected for the classes higher than the standard number of primary school students in South Korea, Japan, Mexico, and the rest of the world except for the UK, Denmark, and Iceland.

When it comes to schools where the primary school classes were more crowded than the middle schools, Korean schools held the highest ranking among the listed countries with approximately 36 students, moreover, the average number of children, who studied in the Korean secondary school, was also the most numbered, compared to other countries with the standard of 34 pupils. The typical figure for Japanese lower secondary students outnumbered the standard number of Mexican middle school students, with 34 and 30 respectively, moreover, the average Mexican first-year schools, which hosted for 20 pupils in their classes, had far less children than the standard number of Japanese primary pupils, which was 29 on average.Lastly, the global average number of middle school students were approximately 27, which was more than world standard number of primary school pupils with 25.

In contrast, some European countries showed an interest in selecting more teens in their middle school on average. Furthermore, the average number of pupils who were in the listed European countries, were much lower than the standard number of students studying in other international schools. The typical figure for children who studied in United Kingdom primary school was just 27 which was considerably different from their average number of secondary school students, which was only 18. Finally, there was almost no difference between the number of Denmark and Iceland school pupils, because the average figure for teens at the middle schools of the former country was 21 which was slightly more than the standard number of Danish lower secondary school students with only 20. Moreover, the average number of primary school students in Denmark slightly outnumbered the standard number of Icelandic primary school students, with approximately 23 and 21 respectively.