student teacher ratios

[Phteven]

What is the student:teacher ratio at your child's primary school?

What is a good ratio? What is too high?

[Yael]

My DS kinder class (which will be his class thoughout all of school, although we might pick up a few odd stranglers here and there), is 11.

I like that it is small to be honest, although i'm worried about not having much choices in friends if he doesn't get on with them...

Or getting sick of the other 10 boys after being in school with them for 15 years!

[barbie-up]

I think for Victorian government schools, there is a maximum of 20 or 22 for prep. Not sure about the other grades. Cait is in grade two and I think there are 18 kids.

Non Government schools can do what they like. My friends son was in a prep grade of 27 kids.

You could probably google it.

[Ryatha]

In SA the ratio is normally 24-26 in Private schools and about 28-30 in government schools. But some schools are able to have ratios at about 20 deending on the finances of the school.

[ubba82]

At DD's school they have over 600 kids. There is 5 grade 2 classes with the max number of students being 24. Not sure about the other classes.

[Phteven]

So 20 is ok?
We're looking at 2 schools. One has a policy of 20 the whole way through and the other has 20 in kinder and up to 30 in year 6.