Quick Facts About School and Education in Haiti
Haiti has a 61% literacy rate.
Almost 90% of all schools are private. They are owned by local churches, for profit organizations, and NGOs.
Private schools in Haiti do not receive funding from the Ministry of Education. Income for the school come from charging students school fees.
Families are responsible for paying school fees, required uniforms, shoes, textbooks, school supplies, lunch and transportation.
The education system is in French, which only 10% of the Haitian population have fluency and use the language every day.
Around 85% of children in Haiti will enroll in kindergarten. 67% of children drop out before 9th grade. Only around 27% of all students make it to secondary / high school.
Only 1% of children in Haiti will graduate from high school.
Teachers are paid an average of $1.86 US dollars an hour.
There is a shortage of teachers and they often do not receive adequate training to qualify them as teachers.
A percentage of teachers did not finish high school or attend college themselves. They rely on the direction and teachings of the school to teach students
