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Table 11A（Education、School、General）
General Education (School)(Pupils)(Teacher)(Ratio)  (1995 - 2003)
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Year　　　　　　　　　　　　　Item	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003 *
Total Number of Schools	10,888	10,936	10,983	10,722	10,694	10,615	10,552	10,508	10,475
Government Schools (1)	10,283	10,312	10,358	10,088	10,057	9,976	9,891	9,829	9,790
Private School	79	79	75	79	77	78	78	80	85
Pirivenas	526	545	550	555	560	561	583	599	600
Total Number of Pupils	4,350,724	4,254,393	4,260,989	4,279,315	4,277,064	4,340,447	4,337,314	4,179,217	4,096,886
Government Schools (1)	4,213,571	4,119,627	4,124,108	4,136,029	4,134,082	4,193,908	4,187,146	4,027,075	3,941,685
Private School	86,630	86,205	85,890	91,370	43,325	95,383	97,262	97,174	99,476
Pirivenas	47,523	48,561	50,991	51,916	49,657	51,156	52,906	54,968	55,725
Total Number of Teacher	195,388	193,865	187,539	194,808	194,589	194,718	198,410	196,407	194,934
Government Schools (1)	187,571	185,842	179,589	186,484	186,184	186,097	189,485	186,999	185,036
Private School	3,677	3,774	3,652	3,990	4,154	4,332	4,343	4,569	4,906
Pirivenas	4,140	4,249	4,298	4,334	4,251	4,289	4,582	4,839	4,989
Pupil Teacher Ratio in
Government Schools (1)	22	22	23	22	22	23	22	22	21
Private School	24	23	24	23	22	22	22	21	20
Pirivenas	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	11	11
New Admission to Government Schools			347,787	345,531	340,941	332,892	330,316	325,763	315,606
© ２００７， KRI (Kusaka Research Institute)
Sourse:
Ministry of Education
Key :
＊；　Provisonal
(1) = From 1998 onwards, only functioning schools are given under government schools
Note : 2003 includes 2331 teachers paid by other than government
Revised:  2007(y)/01(m)/30(d)
Chief Editor:
Dr. Milton Rajaratne (B.Com., M.Sc., Ph.D.)
The Head, Department of Management Studies
University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka