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No less an authority(!) than the UK government on November 13 published this: ‘Reporting year 2025: Education and training statistics for the UK.’
Among the statistics given for the four constituent nations are pupil:teacher ratios for publicly-funded primary and secondary schools.
The ‘Headline facts and figures – 2025’ section has this on overall ratios for publicly-funded/maintained schools: ‘Pupil to teacher ratios were lowest in Scotland (13.3), and similar in Northern Ireland (17.1), England (18.0), and Wales (18.9).‘
Specifically for primary schools, the latest statistics on pupil-teacher ratios in for example Labour-run Wales and in Scotland are: Wales = 18.9 and Scotland = 16.1.
Time series data – extracted with the assistance of ChatGPT from the UK government’s collection of reports going back to 2015 – reveal that the pupil – teacher ratio in Scottish primary schools has been the lowest (the most favourable) of the UK nations since at least 2010/11. A similar longstanding pattern is revealed by data on the ratios of the number of pupils to the number of teachers working in secondary schools: the ratio is lowest – more favourable and substantially so – in Scotland.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Secondary are lower 5/6 years. Primary are higher. Higher ratio. Classroom assistants. Nurture/nature and counsellors in schools. Additional neurodiverse. Support. Unless the unionist councils try and cut staff but education funding is ring fenced by the Scottish Gov.
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