Class ceiling must give students better educational environment by avoiding a general overcrowding of classes at each grade level, so class sizes do not become a barrier to learning. When teachers have more time for each student, students can learn more and dropout reduced.

Class ceiling carried out by introducing:

1. a grant condition that an average capped at 28 pupils or students per. class in each grade in secondary school full-time education which the individual care provider, and
2. a denial of grants to institutions that have more than a maximum of 28 pupils or students per. class in each grade in secondary school full-time education by the institution provider.

Class ceiling includes secondary full-time education, that is, the three-year training courses for secondary school (stx), higher commercial examination (HHX) and the higher technical examination (HTX), the two-year training for matriculation organized by the students' course and the two-year training for the higher preparatory examination (hf). Single subject Teaching and International Baccalaureate (IB) are not included.

Any offering of secondary full-time programs at public colleges, adult cent-re, vocational schools and private colleges, student courses and higher preparatory courses covered by class ceiling.

Children and Education Minister could set the rules under which grants the condition and tilskudsafskæringen in special cases be waived in accordance with objective criteria. There will also be fixed rules on the calculation of average class size.

The bill's background is budget agreement for 2012 between the government (Social Democrats, Social Liberals and the Socialist People's Party) and the Alliance.