Education for All

Results achieved as of March 2016 include: (1) the percentage of children age 12 or younger who graduated from 6th grade reached 73.1% an increase from 63.1% obtained in 2013; (2) the performance in standardized tests for 6th grade Spanish was recorded at 73% (against the Education For All goal for 2015 of 70%) and for Mathematics was recorded at 51% (against the Education For All goal for 2015 of 70%); (3) primary education graduation rate of any age for children registered in schools was 99.35%. Insecurity remains an important challenge to children attending public schools. The repetition rate for 2015 presented an overall rate of 0.17% for basic education (Grades 1-6). The overall dropout rates for Grades 1-6 was 1.83%; (4) the project improved the quality of the learning environment for students by delivering 400 000 new school desks to primary schools across the country and enhancing learning opportunities for students with the distribution of 853 628 Spanish texts and Math workbooks for Grades 1-2 and 96 643 Math and Spanish workbooks for Grades 3 through 6; (5) the contracting of the National Pedagogical University of Francisco Morazán to develop new curriculum for Grades 1 through 9 will allow the Government of Honduras to own the copyright on new textbooks making revisions and reproduction of textbooks in future years less expensive and easier to manage.