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  "description": "Public school pupil/teacher ratio for the nation and every state, for fall 2022, the newest year NCES's Digest of Education Statistics table 208.40 publishes.",
  "url": "https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d23/tables/dt23_208.40.asp",
  "methodologyUrl": "https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/",
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  "updateFrequency": "Annual",
  "publisherUpdated": "2024-01",
  "retrieved": "2026-09-08",
  "license": "Public domain. U.S. federal government work.",
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   "The ratio includes teachers of students with disabilities and other special education teachers, so it is generally higher than a classroom class-size figure and NCES itself notes it differs from ratios reported at the school or district level.",
   "Figures are drawn from state-reported totals to the NCES Common Core of Data State Nonfiscal Survey; this table also carries fall 2020 and fall 2021 ratios and older ratio-only figures back to fall 2000, none of which are pulled here.",
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