Student-teacher ratio by state
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.
Publisher
- Organization
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Publisher’s dataset
- Digest of Education Statistics, Table 208.40
- File or API used
- https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d23/tables/xls/tabn208.40.xlsx
- Retrieval script
scripts/fetch-nces-digest.py- Methodology
- https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/
Coverage
- Geography
- Nation and every state (50 states plus the District of Columbia)
- Time coverage
- 2022
- Update frequency
- Annual
- Published
- January 2024
- Retrieved
- September 8, 2026
- License
- The compiled file on this page is CC BY 4.0. The underlying records: Public domain. U.S. federal government work.
Measures
| Measure | What it measures | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Student-teacher ratio | Public elementary and secondary school pupils per full-time-equivalent teacher, fall 2022. | ratio |
Caveats
- 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.
- The 2023 and 2024 Digest editions have not superseded this table as of retrieval; fall 2022 remains the newest year it covers.
Pages built on this dataset
Downloads
How to cite
Understand Idaho, “Digest of Education Statistics, Table 208.40”, compiled from National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of Education Statistics, Table 208.40. Retrieved September 8, 2026. https://understandidaho.com/data/nces-digest/. CC BY 4.0.
Cite National Center for Education Statistics directly for the figures themselves.
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