Young children (0-6 years old) are cared for and receive initial education in the pre-primary schools. The Council has 48 Pre-primary schools among which 43 are public owned schools and 5 are private owned.
TARGET
ACTUAL ENROLMENT
SCHOOLS
BOYS
GIRLS
TOTAL
BOYS
GIRLS
TOTAL
%
GOVERMENT
1904
1917
3821
2490
2794
5284
138
PRIVATE
89
82
171
168
195
363
212
TOTAL
1993
1999
3992
2650
2989
5647
141
Primary Education
The Council has 50 Primary Schools among which 45 are public schools and 5 schools are private ones. Up to the year 2016 the number of pupils in those 50 Primary schools is 44,775 among them 20,326 are boys and 24,449 are girls.
In private school there are total number of 1298 pupils where by 616 are boys and 682 are girls. The total number of pupils from government and private schools are 46073. There are 922 teachers and the Council have a shortage of 73 teachers.
The standard I pupils enrollment in the Municipal for five preceding years is as shown in table 2 below.
TABLE 2: Standard I Pupil’s Enrollment From 2008-2016
