CLASS-SIZE TRACKER
Class-Size Tracker
Smaller class sizes? Find out with the class-size tracker
The McGuinty government is lowering class sizes in the primary grades – Junior Kindergarten to Grade 3. See the class sizes for your school, your school board and all of Ontario.
What is our goal?
- Each primary class will have no more than 23 students
- 90% of primary classrooms will have 20 students or fewer
Why are we doing this?
Students in smaller classes get more attention, do better and are more likely to succeed in high school and beyond.
How are we doing?
The number of large classes is dropping. In 2007-08:
- Almost all - 99.7% - of primary classes have 23 students or fewer
- 88.4% have 20 or fewer
- Only 0.1% of primary classes have 25 or more students.
Classes are getting smaller. Today, only 0.1% of primary classes have 25 or more students. That’s down from 25% in 2003-04.
What are we doing to reduce class sizes?
To make class sizes smaller, we need more teachers and more classrooms. As of 2007-08, annual funding has reached $406 million to support more than 5,100 primary teachers. We are also providing funding to support projects totalling over $700 million, to build or renovate classrooms.
Today, the McGuinty government invests $3.7 billion more in education than the government did just five years ago.
