The infographic "general education in numbers", referring to education from primary to high school or from grades 1 to 12, reveals surprising statistics about Latvia's education system:
- There are about 202,000 schoolchildren in Latvia from grade 1 to 12;
- They are taught by 28.5 thousand teachers in 815 schools, of which 755 are municipal and 60 are private;
- The number of schoolchildren is about 60% of schoolchildren in comparison to 1990, but for teachers this number is 90%, and for schools - about 85%;
- The number of pupils has shrunk by about 100,000 in the last ten years;
- There are twice as many first-grade pupils as there are 12th grade pupils;
- In 2013, only one in ten teachers was male;
- The same year, the average teacher had worked 22 years in this profession;
- On average, there were 18 pupils in a classroom in 2013;
- The average director of a school was aged 53, and of ten directors, two were headmasters and eight were headmistresses;
- The average school had about 295 schoolchildren, taught by 33 teachers;
- Each year, the average number of retired teachers still teaching at school keeps growing, and this year the number stands at 7.44%.
