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National Enrolment Trends

How enrolment is moving across district, region, sex, and age — with the out-of-school children counterpart, since EMIS launched in September 2025.

Showing all districts · both sexes
1,419
Cumulative admissions
Across 10 months since launch
1 / 5
Regions with enrolment
1 / 16 districts active
99.8%
Gender attribute filled
15 / 42 schools done
0.84%
Out-of-school rate
12 OOSC vs 1,423 enrolled

Monthly enrolment trend live data

Admissions per month since September 2025, with the running cumulative line. The Sept 2025 spike is the inaugural cohort; the Feb 2026 spike is the mid-year admission window.

Enrolment by region live

Where the country's students are concentrated. Rolled up from district.

By district + sex live

District totals split by recorded sex. Grey segments are students without a sex attribute on file.

Sex breakdown 99.8% filled

15 of 42 active schools have at least some sex data on file.

Where new enrolees are coming from live

Top source schools across the country — structured transfers (logged through the inter-school transfer system) plus self-declared previous-school text on the admission form. 0 structured transfers and 69 self-declared entries feed this view.

Age band distribution live

Computed from date of birth at the time of admission.

Out-of-school overlay thin data

Students flagged by district officers as out-of-school, broken down by reason. The OOSC module has only just been opened — expect this panel to grow.

Year-over-year retention single cohort

Inaugural cohort still in school

EMIS launched in September 2025, so the first national cohort of 1,419 learners is still within its first academic year (Sept 2025 – Aug 2026). Retention rate becomes computable from September 2026 when the 2026/27 academic year begins and prior-year learners can be checked for re-enrolment.

Methodology. Every figure on this page is computed live from the EMIS database the moment the page is loaded. Counts include all students with active_status = 1 across all active schools; the system template school (sm_schools.id = 1) is excluded. Sex breakdowns omit students who have no gender_id on file (currently 0.2% of the active cohort). Age bands depend on date_of_birth capture at admission, which is not yet enforced. The OOSC overlay reads from emis_oosc records logged by district education officers. The figures are refreshed every fifteen minutes.