The price illustrates a detailed breakdown of class sizes in primary schools across 4 states of Australia in the year 2010.
Overall, it could be seen that while the level of 21 to 25 students contributed the highest in 3 out of 4 states, except for South Australia, the opposite was true in the class size of 30 students or more.
To begin with, New South Wales’s primary schools shared a common tendency of class size from 21 to 25 students, which experienced 37% in 2010 and the second position was a class including 20 students or fewer with 26%. A similar trend could be seen in 4 class sizes of Western Australia’s primary schools. For example, the distribution of classes from 30 students or more witnessed 5% in Western Australia compared to 4% in New South Wales.
Looking at the rest, primary schools in the Australian Capital Territory attributed the highest percentage of classes with 21 to 25 students, 51%. Besides, the level of classes with under 20 students also contributed the most dominant portion in 4 states, 38%. However, the class size of more than 30 students shared the lowest proportion, 1%. In South America, the significant difference was that the percentage of classes with 21 to 25 students was not the most common class size as in 4 states, while it belonged to classes with 20 students or fewer, 33% compared to 36%.