EDUCATIONAL STATUS OF CHILDREN

In the case of Nepal , the educational status of children is still poor.Despite the fact that the efforts are being made to improve the educational status of children in each five years achievements has been obtained.

The net enrollment rate for the primary level of education is 80.4 percent.Overall dropout rate in the primary level grade 5 is around 17.7 percent.The net of children rate in lower secondary level is 33 percent.Despite a large increase in number of children education is still low indicating a high dropout rate and low percent graduating to lower secondary schools.

Similarly , the secondary level educational status of children rate is only twenty percent.The low level children education rate may be the cause of high dropouts rates at earlier grades as well as lower promotion rate.