Indicator 1: Number of schools by grade level

Table 1
 

Key:

Elementary:  ECE (Early Childhood Education, below 1st grade) to 8th grade.
Secondary:  9th grade to 12th grade.

Notes:    1) Kosrae’s Elementary Schools serve grades 1 – 9 with Kosrae High School serving grades 10 – 12
2) ECE and middle schools are included in the Elementary grade category
3) There are 8 schools in Chuuk serving grades 1-10. 

Comments:

The above data for the elementary schools shows an increase in number of schools since 2006. However, the above table features all 77 of the ECEs in FSM in the “Elementary Category”. Similarly, the eight more Chuuk Secondary schools in this year’s table are because within secondary schools we have included the 8 Chuuk “middle schools”.

There is reason to believe that the 2006 data is incorrect, as ECEs reports were inconsistent (Yap did not report their ECE at all). Due to the use of the SEDS database, we now have the definitive list of schools for FSM, including the correct level, status, etc. This is because, while using the SEDS database, the officers ensured that the school list for their own state (which was derived from a national list held in NDOE) was updated with all the correct details, defunct schools removed, and so on.

There are inconsistencies in the total number of schools in table 1 compared to table number 2.