Primary school class sizes are smallest in the Western Isles (14 pupils), followed by Shetland Islands and Orkney (both 17).
At the last general election Labour made pledges on cutting primary school class sizes, introducing legislation for a Welsh Assembly in the first year, cutting NHS waiting lists by an extra 100, 000, getting 250, 000 under-25s off benefit and into work (around 13, 000 in Wales), and setting tough rules for government spending and borrowing.
They said they were family friends of the rally champion and his wife, and their sons attended the same primary one class at school.
The Liberal Democrat education spokesman, Phil Willis, welcomed the latest fall but said the government had to do more to reduce class sizes throughout primary school.
Mr Galton reckons that 35% of the primary-school day is now spent on whole-class teaching, up from 15% a few years ago.
The First Minister told him that both councils were making progress on cutting class sizes in the first three years of primary school.
At Vauvert Primary School, two reception classes will be run a fraction below its maximum class size of 25 with 49 pupils in total.
Historically, children from the Fields have had the right to attend primary school in Pagford, a place of flower baskets and other middle-class comforts, and the town has also supported a drug-treatment clinic that serves the neighborhood.
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"They do not meet the authority's preferred model for a primary school, which is a school with single form entry or a school with no more than two age groups per class, " she said.
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