SECONDARY EDUCATION stats brief

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2015

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PREFACE

This publication gives preliminary highlights on Secondary Education statistics derived from data collected from Secondary schools through the 2015 annual school census. The statistics provided will assist in monitoring the existing education policies, inform planning and decision making and serve as evidence on the country's progress towards meeting national and international obligations on the provision of secondary education. We sincerely thank all the school heads and regional education officers who provided the required data for the production of this brief.

_____________________________ Dr. Burton Mguni Statistician General December 2018

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INTRODUCTION

The statistics in this report is based on data collected through the 2015 Secondary school annual census. The Annual Census of Schools is carried out by Education Management Information Systems (EMIS) unit in the Ministry of Basic Education under the Department of Educational Planning and Research Services hence the data analysis by Education Statistics Unit (Statistics Botswana). The data is collected annually from Government, Government Aided and privately owned secondary schools.

It should be noted that this publication mainly covers data for 2015. However, some data for previous years have been used for comparative analysis.

The statistics provided is mainly on school ownership, number of schools, enrolments, drop outs, re-entrants, teachers and their qualification. Indicators reported include; Enrolment rates, pupil/teacher ratio, Transition rates and dropout rates among others.

2.0 SECONDARY EDUCATION SCHOOL OWNERSHIP

Secondary school ownership in Botswana is mainly in three forms; government, government aided and privately owned schools. Government secondary schools are solely managed by Ministry of Basic Education, while the private schools are entities owned by individuals or companies and government aided schools are mission schools run by religious institutions (Roman Catholic Church and United Congregational Church of Southern Africa (UCCSA) in partnership with Ministry of Basic Education.

Table 2.1: Number of Secondary Schools by School Ownership (2005-2015)

Secondary School Ownership

Years

Government

% Share

Government Aided % Share

2005

230

82.7

4

1.4

2006

231

84.3

4

1.5

2007

231

87.2

4

1.5

2008

232

84.1

4

1.5

2009

232

84.1

4

1.5

2010

232

84.1

4

1.5

2011

234

84.2

4

1.4

2012

235

83

4

1.4

2013

235

82.5

4

1.4

2014

238

81.8

4

1.4

2015

237

80.9

4

1.4

Private 44 39 30 40 40 40 40 44 46 49 52

% Share 15.8 14.2 11.3 14.5 14.5 14.5 14.4 15.6 16.1 16.8 17.8

Total 278 274 265 276 276 276 278 283 285 291 293

Table 2.1 shows that there has been an increase of 5.1 percent on the number of secondary schools, from 278 in 2005 to 293 in 2015. Out of the 293 secondary schools, Government schools constituted 80.9 percent of all secondary schools in the country, while government aided and private schools constituted 1.4 and 17.8 percent respectively.

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Table 2.2: Number of Secondary Schools by School Ownership and Region -2015

Region

Public

%

Private

%

Total

%

South East

27

60.0

18

40.0

45

15.5

North East

21

72.4

8

27.6

29

9.6

Southern

34

81.0

8

19.0

42

14.1

Kweneng

26

83.9

5

16.1

31

11.0

Kgatleng

11

91.7

1

8.3

12

4.12

North West

15

71.4

6

28.6

21

7.2

Chobe

2

100

-

-

2

0.7

Gantsi

5

100

-

-

5

1.7

Kgalagadi

7

100

-

-

7

2.4

Central

93

93.9

6

6.1

99

33.7

Total

241

82.3

52

17.7

293

100

**Government schools include Government and Government aided schools

Table 2.2 shows that Central region had the highest percentage of Government secondary schools at 33.7 percent followed by Southern region with 14.1 percent. Chobe region had the lowest proportion of government secondary schools accounting for only 0.7 percent. On the other hand, South East region had the highest percentage of private schools (40.0%) followed by North West region with 28.6 percent, North East and Central region follow with 12.2 percent each. Chobe, Kgalagadi and Gantsi regions did not have private secondary schools.

3.0 SECONDARY EDUCATION ENROLMENT

Table 3.1: Secondary School Enrolment by School Ownership, Sex and Form- 2015

School ownership

FORM 1 FORM 2 FORM 3 FORM 4 FORM 5

Government

Male

20,999

20,506

20,378

9,853

10,403

Female

20,661

21,203

20,582

12,630

12,303

Total

41,660

41,709

40,960

22,483

22,706

Government Aided

Male

-

-

-

1,467

1,446

Female

-

-

-

1,926

1,854

Total

0

0

0

3393

3300

Private

Male

585

607

727

752

771

Female

627

608

734

780

857

Total

1,212

1,215

1,461

1,532

1,628

All Schools

Male

21,584

21,113

21,105

12,072

12,620

Female

21,288

21,811

21,316

15,336

15,014

Total

42,872

42,924

42,421

27,408

27,634

FORM 6 0 0

266 217 483 266 217 483

SPED 75 69

144 0 8 2

10 83 71 154

Total 82,214 87,448 169,662

2,913 3,780 6693 3,716 3,825 7,541 88,843 95,053 183,896

Table 3.1 shows that secondary school enrolment in 2015 was at 183,896, which shows an increase of 1.1% (181,826) compared to 2014 enrolment. Female students accounted for 51.7% compared to their male counterparts with 48.3%.

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Figure 1: Secondary School Enrolment by School Ownership-2015

180,000 160,000 140,000 120,000 100,000

80,000 60,000 40,000 20,000

0

Total Enroment by School Ownership-2015

169,662

Gov ernment

6,693 Gov ernment Aided

7,541 Private

Figure 1 shows that secondary school enrolment in government secondary schools was at 169,662 constituting 92.3 percent, while the enrolment for Government aided schools was at 6,693 being 3.6 percent and Private schools had 7,541 students constituting 4.1 percent of total enrolment.

Table 3.2: Secondary School Enrolment by Region, Sex and Form- 2015

MALES

REGION

FORM 1

FORM 2

FORM 3

FORM 4

FORM 5

South East

2,656

2,743

2,671

2,604

2,614

North East

1,911

1,795

1,901

1,160

1,201

South

2,695

2,694

2,534

1,461

1,759

Kweneng

2,752

2,698

2,685

814

861

Kgatleng

1,030

965

964

393

419

North West

1,849

1,747

1,760

706

830

Chobe

198

202

220

-

-

Gantsi

370

359

333

268

334

Kgalagadi

581

546

520

262

281

Central

7,542

7,364

7,517

4,404

4,321

Total

21,584

21,113

21,105

12,072

12,620

FORM 6 225 40 1 266

SPED 32 19 29 3 83

TOTAL 13,545

8,027 11,144

9,810 3,800 6,892

620 1,664 2,190 31,151 88,843

Table 3.3: Secondary School Enrolment by Region, Sex and Form- 2015

FEMALES

REGION

FORM 1

FORM 2

FORM 3

FORM 4

FORM 5

South East

2,784

2,769

2,914

3,193

3,123

North East

1,779

1,918

1,914

1,452

1,328

South

2,707

2,674

2,566

1,883

2,134

Kweneng

2,783

2,763

2,725

1,028

1,097

Kgatleng

927

912

929

478

480

North West

1,860

1,825

1,813

1,024

982

Chobe

212

224

211

-

-

Gantsi

416

366

392

388

345

Kgalagadi

562

543

485

406

376

Central

7,258

7,817

7,367

5,484

5,149

Total

21,288

21,811

21,316

15,336

15,014

FORM 6 176 39 2 217

SPED 21 19 30 1 71

TOTAL 14,980

8,449 11,966 10,396

3,756 7,504

647 1,908 2,372 33,075 95,053

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Table 3.4: Secondary School Enrolment by Region, Sex and Form- 2015

BOTH SEXES

REGION

FORM 1

FORM 2

FORM 3

FORM 4

FORM 5

South East

5,440

5,512

5,585

5,797

5,737

North East

3,690

3,713

3,815

2,612

2,529

South

5,402

5,368

5,100

3,344

3,893

Kweneng

5,535

5,461

5,410

1,842

1,958

Kgatleng

1,957

1,877

1,893

871

899

North West

3,709

3,572

3,573

1,730

1,812

Chobe

410

426

431

-

-

Gantsi

786

725

725

656

679

Kgalagadi

1,143

1,089

1,005

668

657

Central

14,800

15,181

14,884

9,888

9,470

Total

42,872

42,924

42,421

27,408

27,634

FORM 6 401 79 3 483

SPED 53 38 59 1 3

154

TOTAL 28,525 16,476 23,110 20,206

7,556 14,396

1,267 3,572 4,562 64,226 183,896

Table 3.4 shows that enrolment for the lower secondary was higher in Central region with the enrolments for the form 2 students, Chobe region recorded the lowest with 410 student who enrolled into form1. As for the higher secondary school enrolment Central region recorded the highest numbers for both form 4 and 5 followed by South East and the lowest enrollments were recorded in Chobe region.

ENROLMENT

Figure 2: Secondary Schools Enrolment by Region and Sex-2015

35,000

30,000

25,000

20,000

15,000

10,000

5 ,000

0

SouthEast NorthEast

South

Kweneng

Kgatleng NorthWest

Chobe

Gantsi Kgalagadi

Central

REGION

Male Female

Figure 2 shows that generally the sex ratio at enrolment into Secondary schools is in favour of female students compared to their male counterparts in all the 10 regions.

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Table 3.5: Secondary School Enrolment by Single Age, Form, Sex and School Ownership ? 2015

Government Schools

Age in years

FORM 1 Boys Girls

FORM 2 Boys Girls

FORM 3 Boys Girls

FORM 4 Boys Girls

FORM 5

FORM 6

Boys Girls Boys Girls

24

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

TOTAL 20,999 20,661 20,506 21,203 20,378 20,582 9,853 12,630 10,403 12,303

-

-

**Excluding students in SPED Units - students in SPED units is not captured by age

TOTAL

Boys Girls

10

5

520

858

4750 6950

12408 15249

17189 18430

17646 18124

14726 14542

9545 9206

3836 2961

1040

678

311

263

105

70

50

38

3

5

-

-

82,139 87,379

TOTAL 15

1378 11700 27657 35619 35770 29268 18751

6797 1718

574 175

88 8 -

169,518

Table 3.6: Secondary School Enrolment by Single Age, Form, Sex and School Ownership ? 2015

Government Aided

Age in years

FORM 1 Boys Girls

FORM 2 Boys Girls

FORM 3 Boys Girls

FORM 4 Boys Girls

FORM 5

FORM 6

Boys Girls Boys Girls

24

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

TOTAL

-

-

-

-

-

- 1,467 1,926 1,446 1,854

-

-

**Excluding students in SPED Units - students in SPED units is not captured by age

TOTAL

Boys Girls

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

35

47

322

497

956 1330

832

996

460

541

186

222

73

78

40

59

7

10

-

-

-

-

2,911 3,780

TOTAL -

82 819 2286 1828 1001 408 151

99 17

6,691

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Table 3.7: Secondary School Enrolment by Single Age, Form, Sex and School Ownership 2015

Private Schools

Age in years

FORM 1 Boys Girls

FORM 2 Boys Girls

FORM 3 Boys Girls

FORM 4 Boys Girls

FORM 5

FORM 6

Boys Girls Boys Girls

24

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

TOTAL

585

627

607 608 727

734 752

780

771

857 266 217

TOTAL

Boys Girls

32

59

167

236

363

393

523

559

552

534

501

523

534

520

449

382

273

255

167

143

71

68

19

47

28

55

29

49

-

-

3,708 3,823

TOTAL 91

403 756 1082 1086 1024 1054 831 528 310 139

66 83 78

7,531

Table 3.8: Secondary School Enrolment by Single Age, Form, Sex and School Ownership 2015

All Schools

Age in years

FORM 1 Boys Girls

FORM 2 Boys Girls

FORM 3 Boys Girls

FORM 4 Boys Girls

FORM 5

FORM 6

Boys Girls Boys Girls

24

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

TOTAL 21,584 21,288 21,113 21,811 21,105 21,316 12,072 15,336 12,620 15,014 266 217

TOTAL

Boys Girls

42

64

687 1094

5113 7343

12931 15808

17776 19011

18469 19144

16216 16392

10826 10584

4569 3757

1393 1043

455

409

164

176

85

103

34

54

-

-

88,760 94,982

TOTAL 106

1781 12456 28739 36787 37613 32608 21410

8326 2436

864 340 188

88 -

183,742

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