Elimu ya Sekondari

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 students is increased.

The district has only 24 secondary schools. Among these 17 are owned by government and 7 are owned by private organization. These schools are located in 13 wards of Kibondo District council as it was the initiatives of the government to build at least one secondary school in each ward through Community Based Program. Among these schools, 20 secondary schools are O-level only, 2 secondary schools are A-level, 2 are O- level and A- level and 20 are O-level only secondary schools. A-level secondary schools include Kibondo Girls secondary school, Mkugwa Girls secondary school, Malagarasi secondary school and Boniconsilii Mabamba secondary school.

Secondary schools statistics

Source: DEO (S) 2016

Secondary education teachers statistics

The district council has a total number of 297 teachers in which 223 are males and 74 are female. Among these teachers, 256 are teaching art subjects and 41 are teaching science subjects. However, the district has a shortage 143 teachers whereby 72 teachers are art subjects and 71 are science subjects. The problem of shortage is serious on science subjects  for which the shortage is 63% of all science subject teachers while in art subjects the shortage is 21.9% of all art subject teachers..

6.2.4. Student Statistics in Both Government and Private Secondary Schools in 2016.

Table 13: Students statistics

Source: DEO (S) 2016