The number of junior high school students in Japan stood at 3.5 million as of 2012, down from over 5.3 million as recently as 1990.[19] The number of junior high schools, meanwhile, has stayed relatively static, falling from 11,275 in 1990 to 10,699 as of 2012, while the number of junior high school teachers has barely budged at all (257,605 junior high school teachers in 1990, 253,753 in 2012).