Class sizes at highest for years
Secondary class sizes are now at their highest for more than 40 years. Primary classes have risen again this year and are now at their highest since 2000.
Advice
Space requirements in classrooms
Overcrowding is a common problem in classrooms. Unfortunately, there are no legal minimum space requirements specifying classroom dimensions. There are, however, a number of legal provisions and sources of guidance that can be drawn upon in challenging cramped teaching areas
Class Sizes
Guidance on maximum class and room sizes
Press release
Pisa
This report makes for interesting reading. With almost one million children in classes of 31+ even before Covid struck, we know that we need smaller classes and more teachers if we are to avoid huge disruption to pupils' learning because of isolation.
Coronavirus: One million pupils in classes of 31-plus
Today’s data show the proportion of pupils in class sizes of 31+ now stands at 13.4% across primary and secondary. This accounts for almost 1 million children, a shocking figure.
Sutton Trust on Social Mobility
The impact of poverty on children's confidence about their future can't be reversed within schools unless we generate economic and cultural opportunities in the communities where young people live.
Class sizes
NEU class size analysis shows a rise in 474 England constituencies since 2010
NEU comment on Education at a Glance (OECD)
Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, has commentied on the OECD’s Education at a Glance report.