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Government schools average class size - Primary classes, February Census, Victoria

Created 26/06/2025

Updated 26/06/2025

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A dataset of Government schools average Primary Schools Class Sizes, showing average for Prep to Year 2, Year 3 to Year 6 and overall all classes, from census years 2001 to 2023. The size of primary class is collected from government schools as part of the February School Census conducted on the last school day of February each year. The data is collected from all Government schools as part of the February census. The size of a class is defined as the number of students that exist in a class grouping. Where schools have varying class sizes the following definition is used: -count the class as that which exists for the majority of the time and -which includes the time spent teaching literacy and numeracy and -which the school community regards as a class grouping. Decisions on the class size profile for a school are made at the school level and take into account a number of factors such as the number of teachers available, the balance of enrolments across year levels and class room availability. Average class size is NOT the same as the student/teacher ratio.

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Title Government schools average class size - Primary classes, February Census, Victoria
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/786c8bb6-575a-4121-b623-a6e5c6ff3d63
Remote Last Updated 18/02/2025
Contact Point
Department of Education
contact@dpc.vic.gov.au
Reference Period 01/03/2001
Geospatial Coverage Victoria
Data Portal Victoria Government

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This dataset was originally found on Victoria Government "Government schools average class size - Primary classes, February Census, Victoria". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/government-schools-average-class-size-primary-classes-feb-victoria