Table C.2.3
Student-educator ratioNote 1 in public elementary and secondary schools, Canada, provinces and territories, 2001/2002 to 2009/2010

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Table C.2.3
Student-educator ratioNote 1 in public elementary and secondary schools, Canada, provinces and territories, 2001/2002 to 2009/2010
  Canada Newfoundland and Labrador Prince Edward Island Nova Scotia New Brunswick Quebec Ontario Manitoba SaskatchewanNote 2 AlbertaNote 3 British Columbia Yukon Northwest Territories Nunavut
ratio
2001/2002 15.9 13.3 13.9 16.5 16.9 14.5 16.1Note e 15.0 15.7 17.7 16.8 11.9 16.2 17.5
2002/2003 15.9Note r 13.3 16.1 16.2 16.6 14.2 16.2 14.9 15.3Note r 18.2 17.6 12.1 16.3 17.8
2003/2004 15.8Note r 13.3 15.7 16.0 16.2 14.1 16.0 14.8 15.0Note r 18.2 17.7 12.0 15.4 18.6
2004/2005 15.5Note r 13.5 15.4 15.7 15.9 14.2 15.6 14.6 14.9Note r 17.0 17.5 11.5 15.2 16.2
2005/2006 15.2Note r 13.4 15.4 15.1 15.5 14.0Note r 15.2 14.4 14.7Note r 16.8 17.0 11.4Note r 15.2 13.8
2006/2007 14.7Note r 13.0 14.9 14.4 14.9 13.5 14.5 14.2 14.5Note r 16.8 16.6 11.0Note r 15.3 13.9
2007/2008 14.4Note r 12.5 14.3 14.0 14.2 13.2 14.0 14.1 14.4Note r 17.2 16.5 11.1Note r 13.9 13.8
2008/2009 14.1Note r 12.1 13.5 13.6 13.6 13.0 13.8 13.9 14.1Note r 16.5 16.4 10.9Note r 13.4 14.0
2009/2010 14.0 11.9 13.1 13.2Note e 13.5 13.0 13.6 13.7 14.1 15.7 16.6 10.7 13.4 13.6
r revised
e estimate
1. Full-time equivalent enrolment (from Table C.2.1) divided by full-time equivalent educators (from Table C.2.2). The student-educator ratio is not the same as the student-teacher ratio. The student-educator ratio includes teachers and non-teaching staff (personnel outside of the classroom, such as principals, counselors and specialists).
2. In Saskatchewan, figures for full-time equivalent educators include "historic high schools", but the figures for full-time equivalent enrolments do not. Saskatchewan has revised its historical data through to 2008/2009 to reflect the exclusion of educational assistants.
3. Data for Alberta prior to 2004/2005 are not comparable with more recent data due to a change in methodology.
Notes: Due to the nature of the Elementary-Secondary Education Survey (ESES) data collection, these data are updated on an ongoing basis and are therefore subject to further revisions. These data are for publicly funded schools only and do not include private schools and federal schools.
Care should be taken with cross jurisdictional comparisons. The proportion of educators (comprising a mix of teachers, administrators and pedagogical support) and their respective remuneration differ in each jurisdiction.
For a brief description of this indicator, including the methodology, please see the Handbook for the Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Elementary-Secondary Education Survey (ESES), Summary Public School Indicators for the Provinces and Territories,2005/2006 to 2009/2010,Table A.14, Catalogue no.81-595-MWE2011095, published November 30, 2011, and Pan-Canadian Education Indicators (PCEIP) Tables C.2.1 and C.2.2.
Updated December 14, 2011.
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