SocietyEU cuts primary student-teacher ratio to 13.3 as decade-long growth falters
The EU had 23.2 million primary students in 2024, a 0.2% decline from the previous year. Although numbers were still 2.9% higher than in 2014, national trends diverged sharply, with the biggest increases in Luxembourg and Slovenia and major falls in Poland, Croatia and Portugal.
EU cuts primary student-teacher ratio to 13.3 as decade-long growth falters