Pupil-teacher ratio, tertiary - Country Ranking - Central America & the Caribbean

Definition: Tertiary school pupil-teacher ratio is the average number of pupils per teacher in tertiary school.

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/)

See also: Thematic map, Time series comparison

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Guatemala 27.71 2002
2 Dominican Republic 27.43 2017
3 Cayman Islands 26.82 2008
4 Jamaica 22.81 2002
5 Honduras 21.46 2018
6 The Bahamas 19.04 1995
7 El Salvador 17.99 2018
8 Nicaragua 15.33 2002
9 Barbados 14.51 2007
10 Dominica 14.24 1993
11 Belize 13.94 2017
12 Puerto Rico 13.55 2016
13 Costa Rica 11.87 1986
14 Panama 11.54 2016
15 Trinidad and Tobago 9.74 2004
16 Haiti 9.61 1986
17 Antigua and Barbuda 8.18 2012
18 St. Lucia 7.71 2018
19 St. Kitts and Nevis 7.64 2015
20 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 7.05 1990
21 Grenada 5.71 2018
22 Cuba 4.79 2018

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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.

Other Notes: Data retrieved via API in March 2019. For detailed information on the observation level (e.g. National Estimation, UIS Estimation, or Category not applicable), please visit UIS.Stat (http://data.uis.unesco.org/).

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).

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual