Pupil to teacher ratio, public schools
Students enrolled in public elementary and secondary schools in the fall divided by the full-time-equivalent number of public school teachers, from the NCES Digest of Education Statistics (Common Core of Data). The year is the fall of the school year (2022 means fall 2022, the 2022-23 school year).
This is not class size: teachers include those who do not lead a regular class, such as special education and specialist teachers. NCES publishes it for selected years only (2000, 2012 and 2017 onwards).
Key facts
- Pupil to teacher ratio, public schools in the United States was 15.4 pupils per teacher in 2022, according to National Center for Education Statistics.
- Arizona had the highest pupil to teacher ratio, public schools of 51 states in 2022, at 22.8 pupils per teacher, and Vermont the lowest, at 10.5 pupils per teacher. Source: National Center for Education Statistics.
- Published for 52 places, with figures from 2000 to 2022.
Rankings
US states by pupil to teacher ratio, public schools, 2022
Places with data
Countries
Regions and states
- California
- Texas
- Florida
- New York
- Pennsylvania
- Illinois
- Ohio
- Georgia
- North Carolina
- Michigan
- Washington
- Virginia
- Vermont
- Wyoming
- Wisconsin
- West Virginia
Use this data in your AI agent
Invokely serves this figure to AI assistants through MCP and to code through a REST API, with the source and citation attached. Ask your assistant:
Which places have the highest pupil to teacher ratio, public schools? Use official data and cite it.
rank_places {"indicator":"pupil_teacher_ratio_public_k12","level":"region","within":"United States"}
GET https://invokely.ai/api/v1/rank?indicator=pupil_teacher_ratio_public_k12&level=region&within=United%20States