The new data collected during the 2024-2025 School Census, which was conducted under the theme "Resansman lekòl jodi, se prepare zouti pou planifye edikasyon demen" (Return to school today, prepare the tools to plan education tomorrow), will be used to populate the Education Management Information System (SIGE).

This data will also be of great use to the authorities, who need up-to-date and reliable statistics to support their strategic decisions and choices.

Some data from this census reveal that Haiti has :

• 4,028,897 students in total in the school system;

• 861,812 students in preschool;

• More than 2.6 million students (2,645,319) in primary school;

• 521,766 students in secondary school;

• 18,241 schools (82.3% are private, only 17.7% are public);

• At the secondary level, out of 7,683 institutions, 96% are private, only 4% are public;

• 45% of secondary schools are located in the West Department;

• 34,759 preschool teachers work in preschool;

• 82,180 teachers work in the first two cycles of primary education.

From the data collected in this census, the Ministry was able to produce :

• A National Yearbook of School Statistics;

• 10 Departmental Registers;

• A Bulletin of School Statistics (Haiti, Education in Figures).

This work was accomplished through the combined efforts of the Directorate of Planning and External Cooperation (DPCE), the General Directorate of the Ministry of National Education, the Education Management Information System (SIGE), and the Project Coordination Unit (UCP), as well as with the technical and financial support of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the World Bank, and UNESCO.

For the Minister of Education, Augustin Antoine, governance, which constitutes one of the major strategic pillars of the Ten-Year Education and Training Plan (PDEF/2020-2030), cannot be effective without a reliable, coherent, continuously updated, and constantly maintained information system. He then invited the DPCE team to begin collecting data on non-formal education and to supplement the existing data on higher education.

HL/ HaitiLibre