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Statistics on Education

Source: Secretaria de Estado de Educación of the Dominican Republic

Dominican Educational System
Situation to 2005

Table 1. Quantity of Educational Centers, Teachers and Students, by Educational Levels. (Public and Private Sector). 2003-2004.

Quantity	Early Childhood and Primary	Secondary	Total
Schools	9,519	924	10,443
Teachers	53,492	11,323	64,815
Students	1,914,756	484,234	2,398,990

Table 2. Quantity of Students, by Sector and Gender. 2003-2004.

Sector	Male	Female	Total
Public	956,232	948,484	1,904,716
Private	216,466	231,094	447,560
Semi-official (private schools that receive government subsidies)	21,618	25,096	46,714
Total	1,194,316	1,204,674	2,398,990

Table 3. Educational Indicators

Net enrollment in primary education	92.7%
Gross enrollment in secondary education	65.6%
Literacy rate	88.4%
Illiteracy rate in adults	11.6%

Table 4. Hours of class by level and category

Early Childhood Education	1,150 hours
Primary Education	1,150 hours
Secondary Level, General	1,380 hours
Secondary Level, Technical Professional	1,680 hours
Adult Education	1,102 hours

Data and figures

Literacy rate: 88.4%
Illiteracy rate in adults: 11.6%
Net enrollment in primary education: 92.7%
Net enrollment in secondary education (middle level): 65.6%
The early childhood, primary and secondary population totals 2,398,990 students in 10,443 educational centers.
1,904,716 (79.4%) of primary and secondary students are in public school; 447,560 (18.7%) in private schools and 1.9% in the semi-official sector
Around 80% of teachers in primary and secondary education are females.
93% of primary education teachers have a university degree.
17 public schools are developing a bilingual program. Corresponding teacher training in the English language is carried out with the collaboration of the University of Massachussets and the City College of New York. The selected schools are located in the areas of the greatest tourism, duty-free and/or industrial development.
Implementation of the school breakfast program in the public education system.
Current university enrollment: 298,087 students.
Percentage of youth between the ages of 18 and 24 that enroll in higher education: 16.74%
Higher education drop-out rate: between 50 and 70%.
Growth of technical education through the Proyecto Fondo para la Excelencia Académica, which plans to education between 2000 and 3000 information technicians and specialists.
Establishment of Institutos Técnicos Comunitarios (ITC), which will supply free higher technical education to low-income youth in areas especially meaningful to the productive development of their communities.
The Dominican Republic has more than 40 centers of higher education.