Our Correspondent
Kohima | April 5
There were 4, 40, 306 students enrolled in 2835 educational institutions at school level in Nagaland during 2016-17. Out of these, boys constitute a total of 2, 24, 390 and girls 2, 19, 916, according to the annual administrative report 2017-18 of school education presented in the 13th Nagaland Legislative Assembly session recently.
Primary schools have the highest number of enrolment with 2, 28, 380, followed by middle school- 1, 31, 949, high school- 59, 709 and higher secondary at 30, 268.
The enrolment in government schools stood at 1, 81, 358 whereas a total of 2, 58, 948 enrolled under private schools. During 2016-17, there were 2070 government schools in the state with 1150 primary school, 626 middle schools, 253 high schools and 41 higher secondary. The number of central educational institutions in the state stands at 26 with 12 higher secondary schools, 13 high schools and one middle school.
There were also 736 private educational institutions in the state with 118 higher secondary, 303 high schools, 187 middle schools and 128 primary schools.
Meanwhile, there are three educational institutions under Tribal & Social Welfare Department, which included 2 high schools and 1 middle school.
