Primary Education

The district has 84 primary schools, in which 83 are owned by the government and 1 is owned by faith based organization. In these schools there are 57,304 pupils. Among these 28,888 are boys and 28,416 are girls in year of 2016,. 47,801 pupils where by 23,870 are boys and 23,931 are girls in year of 2015 and in the year 2014 pupils were 42980, where by boys were 21718 and girls 21262.

The Department has the following Duties and Responsibilities:

• To promote literacy among the citizens in the District.

• Quality Assurance of the Education provided.

• To make sure that teaching and learning facilities are adequate.

• To make sure that the number of enrolled pupils is increased.

Primary Teachers statistics

The district has a total of 927 primary school teachers where male 600 female 327 while the demand is 1433 teachers. Among these available teachers 622 are males and 369 are females

Primary school teachers statistics per education level for the year 2016

Source:DEO (S) 2015

Education Facilities Statistics

Primary Education facilities