The total number of children enrolled in pre-school education at the national level increased by 1.7% during the year 2022/2023, reaching a total of 931,393 (girls representing 49.5%), compared to 915,491 children enrolled l ‘last year.
In a report from the Department of National Education and Preschool in figures and indicators for the 2022/2023 school year unveiled on Thursday, it emerges, among other things, an improvement in the pace of generalization of preschool, and this in continuity the implementation of the provisions of framework law 51.17 and the deployment of the 2022-2026 roadmap for a quality public school for all. Public pre-school education, managed by partners and regulated by the State, has thus recorded significant attractiveness, increasing from 514,856 children enrolled for the 2021/2022 school year to 571,301 during the current school year, i.e. a 11% increase.
As for private preschool, it recorded a drop of 3.2%, the number of pupils having fallen from 230,251 in 2021/2022 to 222,795 in 2022/2023.
The same trend was observed in unstructured pre-school which decreased significantly, by around 19.4%, with the number of pupils going from 170,384 in 2021/2022 to 137,297 in 2022/2023.
The report of the Department of National Education and Preschool for the 2022/2023 school year presents positive and encouraging results, reflecting the efforts made by the Ministry and its partners for a quality school for all, as well as the return of the positive trend of data and indicators of the education system after the relative stagnation that the latter experienced during the Covid-19 period.
The document reviews the statistics and assessment of different areas of intervention, namely preschool, school provision, social support, human resources. It also presents the evolution of the main indicators of the education system during the 2022/2023 school year.