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Uganda Secondary Education
In 1989 secondary school enrollments on all levels
totaled
265,000 pupils. Of this number, 238,500 were enrolled in
forms
one through six in government-aided secondary schools; 35
percent
of those enrolled were female. Some 216,000 pupils were
enrolled
in the first four years (forms one to four) in "O level"
studies,
while an additional 22,000 were attending teacher training
schools or technical institutes on the lower secondary
level.
Just over 22,000 pupils were enrolled in forms five and
six in
upper secondary ("A level") studies; at the same time,
4,400
other pupils on this level were enrolled in teacher
training
colleges or technical institutes.
The most complete breakdown of primary and secondary
enrollments was for the year 1980, when about 7 percent of
children aged thirteen to sixteen years (about 75,000
pupils)
were enrolled in the first four years (forms one to four)
of
secondary-level education in about 170 government-funded
schools.
About 70 percent of these pupils were boys. Roughly 66,200
were
attending secondary schools in preparation for "O-level"
exams,
which would qualify them for further academic study,
teacher
training, or other technical training programs beyond the
secondary level. Roughly 6,000 people in the thirteen- to
sixteen-year-old age group were attending teacher training
colleges, and about 2,800 were enrolled in technical
schools.
Upper secondary education (forms five and six) enrolled
about
6,900 pupils in 1980. In addition, about 1,200 students
were
enrolled in teacher training colleges at this level, and
1,100 in
technical training institutes. These 9,200 pupils
represented 1.8
percent of the seventeen- and eighteen-year-old age group.
Female
students made up roughly 20 percent of the total. In
addition to
these enrollments, a further 20,000 pupils were attending
private
secondary schools.
Data as of December 1990
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