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Pupil and teacher characteristics 2025
Headline statistics on pupil characteristics, class sizes, pupil teacher ratios and teacher characteristics
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Key points
Correction
In March 2026, Fife Council supplied information relating to minor errors they had identified in the data they submitted for the teacher census. The net effect of the errors was an overall increase of fewer than 10 FTE. This represents less than 0.27% of all teachers in Fife and less than 0.02% of teachers in Scotland. The change has therefore been assessed to have negligible impact on the utility of the statistics. The statistics in this bulletin have not been updated to reflect this change.
Pupils
- 695,923 pupils – down 6,505 from 2024
- 372,331 primary – down 7,023 from 2024
- 315,503 Secondary – up 431 from 2024
- 8,089 Special – up 87 from 2024
- The pupil teacher ratio decreased to 13.2
- The average primary class size decreased from 23.3 in 2024 to 23.1 in 2025.
Teachers
- 53,475 Teachers – up 63 from 2024
- 24,415 Primary – down 53 from 2024
- 25,067 Secondary – up 79 from 2024
- 2,195 Special – up 57 from 2024
- 1,103 Centrally employed – down 37 from 2024
- 696 Early learning and childcare – up 17 from 2024
- The percentage of Teacher Induction Scheme probationers teaching in publicly funded schools the following year increased from 65% in 2024 to 69% in 2025.