Responsible school authority (status)
Educational institutions are either public or private. Furthermore, private institutions are classified between government dependent private (public funding of 50% or more) and independent private institutions (public funding of less than 50%).
The organisation, location and composition of private schools varies considerably from public schools. In compulsory schooling, almost all private schools have fewer than 100 pupils (90%). 73% of independent private schools offer two or more education levels from primary level to upper secondary level. This share rises to 36% in public schools. 81% of private schools are located in communes with highly dense populations, compared with 55% of public schools.
Across all levels of education, 51% of pupils attending a dependent private school are girls while the latter are in the minority in public schools (48%) and in independent private schools (47%).
Public sector schools account for the majority of schools in compulsory education (primary level: 94%; lower secondary level: 80%). The share of the independent private sector is 6% for the primary level and 18% for the lower secondary level. The share of the government dependent private sector is virtually zero (0.4% resp. 2%). Special schools differ from other levels with a majority of government dependent private schools (62%).
At upper secondary level, 59% of schools are public, 16% are dependent private schools and the remaining quarter are independent private schools. The distribution of vocational schools by status is different to that of schools offering general education: 71% of vocational schools and 53% of general education schools are public, 16% and 8% are government dependent private schools, 13% and 39% are independent private schools.
The share of the government dependent and independent private sectors increases with educational level, with the exception of special schools.
