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2,381,500

Students enrolled

23,410

Schools

78,240

Teaching staff

88.9 %

Coverage in basic education

Illustrative data

18 departments · 298 municipalitiesOfficial reference geometry · illustrative data

01Shortcuts

Six ways into the education system.

01Education dataTen dashboards and eighteen territories, with series going back to 2019.02Education policyThe framework that guides the system's decisions.03Strategic planThe National Plan 2026–2035 and its public progress monitor.04RegulationsActs, regulations, agreements and resolutions of the Council.05LibraryDownloadable reports, research and publications.06ParticipationOpen public consultations and the ways to have a say.

02The system in pictures

Five plates of the education system.

Coverage

88.9^%

Thirty-five places, four empty. That is the classroom basic education coverage describes at the close of the school year.

Territory

23,410

Eighteen departments and 298 municipalities, shaded by the weight of their enrolment: the same official outline the observatory colours in.

Teaching staff

78,240

A workforce is drawn repeated: a single figure would be an icon.

Connectivity

41.4^%

The schools the signal reaches, and the ones it does not yet.

Technical education

80,624

Skills, drawn as what they are: a workshop plate.

The figures in this prototype are simulations created solely to demonstrate what the platform can do. Illustrations generated from the portal's data

03Education in figures

Honduras in perspective.

National enrolment

2,381,500

+1.0 % vs. 2025

Schools

23,410

+0.3 % vs. 2025

Teaching staff

78,240

+0.6 % vs. 2025

Coverage in basic education

88.9^%

+0.5 pp vs. 2025

Staying in the system

92.6^%

+0.4 pp vs. 2025

Enrolment in technical education

80,624

+3.6 % vs. 2025

The figures in this prototype are simulations created solely to demonstrate what the platform can do.

04Education map

The system, territory by territory.

2026 enrolment

21k–109k
109k–197k
197k–286k
286k–374k
374k–462k

National

18 departments · 298 municipalitiesIllustrative data

2,381,500Enrolment

23,410Schools

78,240Teachers

88.9 %Basic coverage

The values change when you select a department. Everything on this map is illustrative.

Compare territories

Total enrolment in the education system

2019–2026 series. The 2020–2021 contraction, and the recovery that followed.

View the data table

Total enrolment in the education system, 2019–2026. Illustrative data.
Year	Enrolment
2019	2,283,000
2020	2,249,500
2021	2,222,000
2022	2,261,500
2023	2,302,500
2024	2,334,000
2025	2,358,500
2026	2,381,500

Source: CEDE · National Education Information System (illustrative data) · 2019–2026

Enrolment by education level

The make-up of the 2026 school year.

View the data table

Enrolment by education level, 2026. Illustrative data.
Level	Enrolment	Participation
Pre-primary	314,500	13.2 %
Basic	1,441,000	60.5 %
Upper secondary	626,000	26.3 %

Source: CEDE · National Education Information System (illustrative data) · 2026

Distribution by sex

The share of total enrolment that is female and male.

Female
Male

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Enrolment by sex, 2026. Illustrative data.
Sex	Enrolment	Participation
Female	1,183,575	49.7 %
Male	1,197,925	50.3 %

Source: CEDE · National Education Information System (illustrative data) · 2026

Urban and rural compared

Enrolment served by urban and rural schools.

Urban
Rural

View the data table

Enrolment by area, 2026. Illustrative data.
Area	Enrolment	Participation
Urban	1,299,166	54.6 %
Rural	1,082,334	45.4 %

Source: CEDE · National Education Information System (illustrative data) · 2026

See the full table by department

Enrolment, schools and teaching staff by department, 2026. Illustrative data.
Department	Enrolment	Schools	Teachers
Cortés	462,299	3,901	14,416
Francisco Morazán	444,872	3,673	13,781
Yoro	162,431	1,675	5,424
Olancho	148,069	1,641	5,088
Comayagua	139,569	1,412	4,628
El Paraíso	127,856	1,400	4,373
Choluteca	123,554	1,290	4,145
Atlántida	119,768	1,144	3,889
Santa Bárbara	117,238	1,315	4,049
Copán	102,201	1,126	3,504
Colón	87,159	938	2,959
Lempira	85,935	1,020	3,042
Intibucá	68,643	783	2,388
La Paz	55,978	635	1,943
Valle	48,867	513	1,643
Ocotepeque	40,813	455	1,406
Gracias a Dios	25,317	297	892
Islas de la Bahía	20,931	192	670

05Strategic priorities

Five strands for the coming decade.

Strand 01

Quality and learning

That every student learns what the level promises.

7 programmes41.2 %

Strand 02

Inclusion and equity

That where a child is born stops deciding how far they go in education.

6 programmes28.4 %

Strand 03

Teacher professionalisation

That teaching is a career with training, support and a path through it.

6 programmes46.8 %

Strand 04

Digital transformation

That digital infrastructure reaches the classroom, not just the report.

5 programmes33.1 %

Strand 05

Governance and transparency

That public information is the basis of every education decision.

4 programmes63.5 %

06National Plan monitor

The plan's progress, in public and in real time.

5Strategic objectives

15Indicators

28Programmes

17 / 46Milestones met

34.6 %

Overall progress on the NETP 2026–2035 · Illustrative data

01Quality and learning41.2 %

That every student learns what the level promises.

02Inclusion and equity28.4 %

That where a child is born stops deciding how far they go in education.

03Teacher professionalisation46.8 %

That teaching is a career with training, support and a path through it.

04Digital transformation33.1 %

That digital infrastructure reaches the classroom, not just the report.

05Governance and transparency63.5 %

That public information is the basis of every education decision.

07A joined-up education system

The education system as a network.

Public education

Running the school system, and school-level data.

Higher education

Teacher training and education research.

Vocational training

Technical provision and skills certification.

Universities

Independent evidence and external evaluation.

Local government

Infrastructure, transport and territorial context.

Teachers

Classroom practice and training needs.

Employers

Skills demand and getting people into work.

Civil society

Public scrutiny and the voice of communities.

International cooperation

Technical funding and regional comparison.

08Featured documents

What the Council publishes.

Report

The state of education in Honduras 2026

The annual report on the education system: enrolment, coverage, retention, teachers, infrastructure and funding, with a territorial reading of every indicator.

12 August 2026PDF · 6.2 MB

Research

Territorial gaps and opportunities to widen access to education

Examines why upper secondary coverage stalls in particular territories, and what combination of provision, transport and retention moves it.

30 June 2026PDF · 3.4 MB

Research

Technical education and new skills for employment

Sets current technical provision against the skills demand employers report, and proposes criteria for updating it.

14 May 2026PDF · 2.9 MB

09Recent indicators

Four figures that sum up the year.

Net coverage rate in upper secondary35.2 %2026 · Coverage and accessIllustrative data Intra-year dropout rate4.1 %2026 · RetentionIllustrative data Schools with connectivity41.4 %2026 · InfrastructureIllustrative data Enrolment in technical education80,6242026 · Technical educationIllustrative data

10News

Sessions, methodologies and resolutions.

data26 August 2026Education institutions agree a new national information agendaThe bodies that make up the system have agreed a common timetable for collecting and publishing statistics, with a single set of cut-off dates for every reporting organisation.

data14 August 2026The methodology for tracking education indicators is presented participacion29 July 2026A new forum strengthens coordination across the education system tecnica10 July 2026Specialists examine the challenges facing technical education participacion6 July 2026Public consultation opens on the technical education guidelines

11Public participation

Before deciding, we consult.

Open consultation · CP-2026-04Open

Guidelines for strengthening technical education

A proposal to update technical provision in upper secondary: criteria for reviewing vocational families, the condition of workshops, and tracking graduates into employment.

Consultation timetable

6 Jul 2026Submissions open
6 Aug 2026Deadline extended by Council resolution
18 Sep 2026National technical education forum
30 Sep 2026Submissions close
15 Nov 2026Reasoned response report published

Closes: 30 September 2026 148 submissions received

Take part View the file

Participation to date

2,271Observations

384Organisations

34Sessions and round tables

1Open consultations

Illustrative data · the prototype sends nothing.

12Knowledge centre

Research, to decide better.

Research · Inclusion and equity

Territorial gaps and opportunities to widen access to education

Upper secondary coverage does not stall evenly across the country: it stalls where local provision ends at ninth grade. The study ranks territories by that condition and estimates the effect of three possible interventions.

30 June 202612 min read

Research · Technical education

Technical education and new skills for employment

Sets the current vocational families against the demand employers report, and proposes a way of updating them that does not depend on one-off reviews.

14 May 202610 min read

Foresight study · Teacher training

The future of the teaching profession

What changes in teaching when half the workforce turns over in a decade: initial training, induction, career and working conditions.

22 April 202614 min read

Cohort study · Retention

The transition from basic to upper secondary: where the system loses people

Follows a complete cohort from first grade and pinpoints, year by year and territory by territory, the exact moment students leave.

28 August 202511 min read

13What you need to do

The portal, arranged by what you are looking for.

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Education Observatory

The whole education system, in one place.

Ten dashboards, eighteen departments, eight dimensions of disaggregation and historical series back to 2019, with every table openly downloadable.

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