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Class Size Statistics & Trends: Visualized & Curated [2024]
The typical class size in US public schools is 16-23 students. In the academic year 2020-2021, the mean class size was 18.3 students, a slight decrease from the 2017-2018 average of 19.6 students. These figures represent the mean across both primary…
![Histogram of class sizes in US public schools 2020-2021. The most common class size is 19 students. The histogram has roughly a bell curve-like shape.](/static/3bd30dabfa43cc58663746eb3ddd46db/ea2a0/class-size-us-20-21-hist.png)