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?

Large primary classes have disappeared. In 2008-09:

  • All primary classes have 23 students or fewer
  • 90.3% have 20 or fewer
Primary classes are getting smaller
Primary classes are getting smaller

Classes are getting smaller. In 2003-04, 25% of classes had 25 or more students. Today, all primary classes have 23 students or fewer.

What are we doing to reduce class sizes?

To make class sizes smaller, we need more teachers and more classrooms. As of 2008-09, annual funding has reached almost $420 million to support 5,100 additional primary teachers.

We are also providing funding to support projects totalling over $700 million, to build or renovate classrooms.

For the 2008-09 school year, the McGuinty government's investment in education is $4.3 billion more than it was six years ago.

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