School size
Overview
- Influence: School size
- Domain: School
- Sub-Domain: School compositional effects
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have positive impact
- Influence Definition: The effect of the total number of students in a school on student achievement. Most of the research is at the high school level.
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 2
- Number of studies: 30
- Number of students: 0
- Number of effects: 129
- Weighted mean effect size: 0.33
- Robustness index: 1
Meta-Analyses
| Journal Title | Author | First Author's Country | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dissertation | Stekelenburg | USA | The effects of public high school size on student achievement: a meta-analysis | 1991 | High school size on achievement | 21 | 0 | 120 | 0.43 |
| Book | Luyten | Netherlands | Quantitative summary of research findings | 2014 | School size | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0.10 |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 30 | 0 | 129 | 0.27 | |||||