At the same time that costs were rising, the student - to -
teacher ratio fell by about a third, from 26:1 to 17:1.
Between 1960 and 2000, the pupil -
teacher ratio fell by more than a third.
Not exact matches
Nationwide, pupil -
teacher ratios for the country
fell from 17.8 in 1995 to 15.8 in 2008.
And pupil -
teacher ratios have
fallen by almost 50 percent due to investments in class - size reduction and an increase in the number of
teachers who are not assigned to full classrooms (see Figure 2).
Indeed these findings on mechanisms also fail a simple sniff test: Between 1970 and 2008, pupil -
teacher ratios for the nation
fell by over thirty percent.
Project STAR (Student
Teacher Achievement
Ratio) was a large - scale class - size experiment that began with kindergarten students in the
fall of 1985.
The DfE data shows that London schools are relatively well staffed, with some of the lowest pupil -
teacher ratios, especially in primary schools, which saw the biggest
fall nationwide from 2010 to 2015.
Originally staffed with a 15 - to - one student -
teacher ratio to respond to its high - need population, the school was nevertheless
falling short with a faculty largely made up of new
teachers who lacked training in quality instruction.