Table 12.2.
Total school enrollment by level and gender, 2020 (MoE, 2020).
| Level of education | Republic of Maldives |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female | Male | Total | % of total | ||
| Pre-KG | Nursery and Baby Nursery | 2766 | 2831 | 5597 | 6.1% |
| FS | Preschool (LKG and UKG) | 7317 | 7576 | 14,893 | 16.2% |
| KS 1 and 2 | Primary (Gr 1–6) | 21,125 | 22,812 | 43,937 | 47.9% |
| KS 3 | Lower Secondary (Gr 7–8) | 6157 | 6538 | 12,695 | 13.8% |
| KS 4 | Secondary (Gr 9–10) | 5318 | 5586 | 10,904 | 11.9% |
| KS 5 | Higher Secondary (Gr 11–12) | 1993 | 1533 | 3526 | 3.8% |
| SEN | 51 | 69 | 120 | 0.1% | |
| Total | 44,727 | 46,945 | 91,672 | ||
| % | 48.8% | 51.2% | |||