In 2010 and 2011, the district added teachers while continuing to lose students, and student - to -
teacher ratios dropped dramatically.
Not exact matches
Over the past 50 years, the student -
teacher ratio in America's K — 12 schools has
dropped from 27:1 to 15:1.
Over the last sixty years, student /
teacher ratios have
dropped from about 27/1 to 16/1.
Without a mentor, nearly one in three new
teachers leave by their fifth year, but with a mentor that
ratio drops by more than half, to one in seven.
Next year, that
ratio will
drop to one
teacher per 21 students.
That's in the context of an escalating shortage, with
teacher preparation programs having seen a
drop of about 30 % in enrollments over the last eight years, and
teacher - student
ratios leaving many fewer adults to children.
But, even as the funded
ratio dropped from 78 percent in 2006 to 54 percent funded in 2012, the average
teacher retirement benefit increased from $ 37,241 in 2006 to $ 46,440 in 2012.