Education and Sports

 

 Introduction

The Directorate of Education is charged with overseeing the implementation of the district and national education policies and plans. It also monitors and evaluates the performance of the education system and school operations to keep required standards within the district. The areas of focus include teachers, pupils, school facilities and parents. The Directorate also seeks to strengthen the institutional frame work for the management of schools and assurance of accountability of public resources in education programmes. The department is one of the best funded sectors in the district. The District Council equally joins the Government to promote education for all its citizens in partnership with parents and others members of the community. As such the Government's Education policy is to promote quality basic education by improving access by girls and boys, equity and retention in all Primary schools and other levels of learning including primary, secondary and tertiary levels.

Educational Institutions

Educational institution is any institution whose sole or main purpose is the provision of education and such institution must be normally accredited or sanctioned by some public authority.

Distance to the nearest primary school

 

Table 1: Distances to the Nearest Primary School by gender by household

Distances to nearest primary school	Number of Male Headed		Number of Female Headed		Total
	Rural	Urban	Rural	Urban
Less than ½ Kms	0	0	0	0	0	0
1/2 to 1 Kms	2	2	2	1	4	3
1 to 5 Kms	26	5	21	2	31	23
5 Kms and over	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: Manafwa District Education Office

Table 2: School Going Age by gender

Distances to Nearest school	2014 Census Figures			Projection for 2017
	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total
Primary (6 –12 years)	16,584	16780	33,364	21,680	22,430	44,110
Secondary (13-16 years)	4,498	4,091	8,589	6,794	6,495	13,289
Post-Secondary (19-24 years)	170	159	329	201	194	395

Source: 2014 Population and Housing Census

Number of Primary schools

 

      Table 3: Number of primary schools by ownership by Sub-county

       Source: District Education Officer’s records of 2018

 

Secondary schools in Manafwa District

Table 4: Name of Senior Secondary Schools by Sub-county by county

Source: Education departmental Records 2018.  

 

 Other Educational Institutions

Table 5.4: Number of Other education Institutions by type

Facility	Ownership
	Government	Private
Pre Primary	0	83
Teacher Training Colleges	0	2
Technical College	0	0
Vocational	0	3
Technical Schools	0	0
Universities	0	0

Source: Manafwa District Education Office Records 2017

 Infrastructure

Table 6: Available infrastructure in schools

Indicator Name	Number
Number of permanent classrooms constructed	483
Number of desks	8694
Number of staff houses constructed	28
Number of temporary classrooms	80

Source: Manafwa District Education Office Records 2017

 

 Staffing levels

Table 7: Staffing Levels

Source: Manafwa District Education Office Records 2017

Enrolment and enrolment ratios – primary and Secondary

Primary          Boys 0.52:  Girls 0.48

Secondary      Boys 0.63: Girls 0.37

 

Table 8: No. of Teachers and Pupils by Gender in Government Aided Primary Schools (2007)

Source: Manafwa District Education Department.

Table 9: Number of Secondary School Teachers and students by School and Sub County

Efficiency Ratios (primary)

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Pupil: Latrine stance ratio:    90:1

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Pupil: Desk ratio:                    6:1

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Pupil: Textbook ratio:              5:1

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Dropout rate:                          15%

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Percentage of repeaters:          10%

 Performance in National Examinations by year in percentages

Table 12: P.L.E Result Analysis by year and percentage

	Grade 1	Grade 2	Grade 3	Grade 4	Ungraded	Total
YEAR	Number	% Number	% Number	% Number	Number (Absentees)	(Excluding Absentees)
2008	04	639	1462	1054	468	5535
2009	39	1171	1486	1012	1415	5122
2010	73	1661	1407	829	315	5343
2011	97	1371	1220	1183	292	5507
2012	124	1470	1084	871	212	4702
2013	135	1579	1469	792	598	4573
2014	165	1625	1641	938	1232	4369
2015	86	1207	1785	1060	111	5051
2016	191	1856	1516	1001	110	5342
2017	153	2138	1531	933	618	5373

Source: Manafwa District Education Office.

 

Table 13: PLE Performance by gender and division – 2017

Grade/Division	Male		Female
	Number	Percentage	Number	Percentage
Division I	98	1.8	55	1
Division II	1346	24.5	792	14.4
Division III	1020	18.6	511	9.3
Division IV	390	7	543	9.9
Ungraded	302	5.5	316	5.7
X	45	0.8	84	1.5
Total	3201	58.2	2301	41.8

Source: Manafwa District Education Department Annual Report, 2017

 

 Inspectorate

Indicators under Inspectorate

 

• Inspector: Primary School ratio:                                              1:61
• Number of schools Inspected in 2017/18 financial year:              61

Number of school inspectors                                          01