Colombia | Pupil-teacher ratio, secondary
Secondary school pupil-teacher ratio is the average number of pupils per teacher in secondary school. Development relevance: The pupil-teacher ratio is often used to compare the quality of schooling across countries, but it is often weakly related to student learning and quality of education. Limitations and exceptions: The comparability of pupil-teacher ratios across countries is affected by the definition of teachers and by differences in class size by grade and in the number of hours taught, as well as the different practices countries employ such as part-time teachers, school shifts, and multi-grade classes. Moreover, the underlying enrollment levels are subject to a variety of reporting errors. Statistical concept and methodology: Pupil-teacher ratio is calculated by dividing the number of students at the specified level of education by the number of teachers at the same level of education. Data on education are collected by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics from official responses to its annual education survey. All the data are mapped to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) to ensure the comparability of education programs at the international level. The current version was formally adopted by UNESCO Member States in 2011. The reference years reflect the school year for which the data are presented. In some countries the school year spans two calendar years (for example, from September 2010 to June 2011); in these cases the reference year refers to the year in which the school year ended (2011 in the example).
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Republic of Colombia
Records
63
Source
Colombia | Pupil-teacher ratio, secondary
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
17.16569 1970
18.32271 1971
19.32063 1972
18.70961 1973
19.36182 1974
19.45419 1975
19.75379 1976
20.26675 1977
20.39189 1978
20.34494 1979
20.35816 1980
20.21892 1981
20.14648 1982
20.18309 1983
20.28568 1984
20.15015 1985
19.94919 1986
19.90078 1987
19.88935 1988
19.8784 1989
1990
19.85892 1991
20.58411 1992
21.08985 1993
20.94314 1994
21.0487 1995
19.15089 1996
1997
1998
17.91693 1999
19.19542 2000
2001
20.92474 2002
2003
24.64723 2004
26.17165 2005
27.36572 2006
25.2348 2007
2008
26.65632 2009
27.14634 2010
25.58137 2011
25.39509 2012
25.49841 2013
24.90129 2014
26.47999 2015
26.18799 2016
26.01138 2017
25.91073 2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
Colombia | Pupil-teacher ratio, secondary
Secondary school pupil-teacher ratio is the average number of pupils per teacher in secondary school. Development relevance: The pupil-teacher ratio is often used to compare the quality of schooling across countries, but it is often weakly related to student learning and quality of education. Limitations and exceptions: The comparability of pupil-teacher ratios across countries is affected by the definition of teachers and by differences in class size by grade and in the number of hours taught, as well as the different practices countries employ such as part-time teachers, school shifts, and multi-grade classes. Moreover, the underlying enrollment levels are subject to a variety of reporting errors. Statistical concept and methodology: Pupil-teacher ratio is calculated by dividing the number of students at the specified level of education by the number of teachers at the same level of education. Data on education are collected by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics from official responses to its annual education survey. All the data are mapped to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) to ensure the comparability of education programs at the international level. The current version was formally adopted by UNESCO Member States in 2011. The reference years reflect the school year for which the data are presented. In some countries the school year spans two calendar years (for example, from September 2010 to June 2011); in these cases the reference year refers to the year in which the school year ended (2011 in the example).
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Republic of Colombia
Records
63
Source