REPORTS · EDUCATION STATISTICS
The state of education in Kano
Enrolment, gender parity, teacher supply, school infrastructure, the education budget and examination outcomes for the 2025/2026 session. Every figure comes from the Annual School Census and the termly returns, and every one of them can be reproduced from the datasets on the open data portal.
Learners enrolled
3.40m
All levels, all boards, 2025/2026
Gender parity index
0.9
Girls per boy · parity is 1.00
Teachers in post
79,680
Against 100,400 established
Education budget
₦168.4B
90.7% released to date
82.4%
Primary 6 to JSS 1 transition
74.6%
Basic education completion
44:1
Pupil–teacher ratio
27.4%
Education share of the State budget
Enrolment across seven sessions
Total enrolment has risen from 2.50 million in 2019/2020 to 3.40 million in 2025/2026. Girls account for almost the whole of the increase: boys are up 306,000 over the period, girls up 596,000.
Enrolment by session, boys and girls
All levels, all boards, as returned in the Annual School Census.
Enrolment by session
| Session | Boys | Girls | Total | GPI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019/2020 | 1,486,000 | 1,012,000 | 2,498,000 | 0.681 |
| 2020/2021 | 1,534,000 | 1,098,000 | 2,632,000 | 0.716 |
| 2021/2022 | 1,588,000 | 1,186,000 | 2,774,000 | 0.747 |
| 2022/2023 | 1,642,000 | 1,294,000 | 2,936,000 | 0.788 |
| 2023/2024 | 1,698,000 | 1,402,000 | 3,100,000 | 0.826 |
| 2024/2025 | 1,744,000 | 1,506,000 | 3,250,000 | 0.864 |
| 2025/2026 | 1,792,000 | 1,608,000 | 3,400,000 | 0.897 |
Enrolment by level, 2025/2026
| Level | Boys | Girls | Total | GPI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-Primary | 214,000 | 198,000 | 412,000 | 0.93 |
| Primary | 986,000 | 874,000 | 1,860,000 | 0.89 |
| Junior Secondary | 312,000 | 268,000 | 580,000 | 0.86 |
| Senior Secondary | 186,000 | 154,000 | 340,000 | 0.83 |
| Technical | 26,400 | 12,000 | 38,400 | 0.45 |
| Non-Formal | 67,600 | 102,000 | 169,600 | 1.51 |
Gender parity, zone by zone
The gender parity index is girls enrolled per boy enrolled. Parity is 1.00. The State index is 0.9, up from 0.68 seven sessions ago — but the State figure hides a wide spread, and the zones below are where the work now is.
Enrolment and parity by zone
Bars are boys and girls enrolled; the line is the parity index against the right-hand axis. The dotted level is parity at 1.00.
Kano Central
GPI 0.93938,000 learners — 486,000 boys, 452,000 girls.
48.2 per cent of learners in this zone are girls.
Kano North
GPI 0.83729,000 learners — 398,000 boys, 331,000 girls.
45.4 per cent of learners in this zone are girls.
Kano South
GPI 0.84629,000 learners — 341,000 boys, 288,000 girls.
45.8 per cent of learners in this zone are girls.
Gaya Zone
GPI 0.84402,000 learners — 218,000 boys, 184,000 girls.
45.8 per cent of learners in this zone are girls.
Rano Zone
GPI 0.83358,000 learners — 196,000 boys, 162,000 girls.
45.3 per cent of learners in this zone are girls.
Wudil Zone
GPI 1.25344,000 learners — 153,000 boys, 191,000 girls.
55.5 per cent of learners in this zone are girls.
Why the gap is widest where it is.
Parity is close in the metropolitan zones, where a secondary school is within walking distance and the household cost of sending a girl is lowest. It is furthest away in the rural zones, at the transition from primary to junior secondary, and in technical education, where enrolment is overwhelmingly male. The Girl-Child Education Initiative, the conditional cash transfer and the female-teacher recruitment drive are all targeted at exactly those points.
Teacher supply against establishment
79,680 teaching and non-teaching staff are in post against an approved establishment of 100,400 — a gap of 20,720 posts, and a State pupil–teacher ratio of 44:1 against a national benchmark of 35:1.
In post against establishment, by board
The grey bar is the approved establishment; the blue bar is what is actually filled.
Establishment, vacancies and qualification
A qualified teacher holds NCE or above and a current TRCN registration.
| Board | In post | Establishment | Vacancies | Filled | Qualified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SUBEB | 41,600 | 52,400 | 10,800 | 79.4% | 84.2% |
| KSSMB | 14,800 | 17,200 | 2,400 | 86% | 91.6% |
| KSQISMB | 11,200 | 16,800 | 5,600 | 66.7% | 58.4% |
| PVIB | 7,400 | 7,400 | 0 | 100% | 72.8% |
| STSB | 2,100 | 3,100 | 1,000 | 67.7% | 88.4% |
| AGMEd | 1,900 | 2,600 | 700 | 73.1% | 64.1% |
| KSLB | 420 | 560 | 140 | 75% | 79.3% |
| Ministry | 260 | 340 | 80 | 76.5% | 96.2% |
School infrastructure and its condition
Every structure on every school site is inspected during the Annual School Census and given one of six condition verdicts. Sixty per cent of the estate is good or fair; eighteen per cent needs major repair or is dilapidated, and that eighteen per cent is what the Education Development Trust Fund and the Special Public Primary Infrastructure programme exist to clear.
Condition of the estate
Share of all inspected structures.
Facilities by type
Total counted against how many are actually usable this session.
21,400
34 per cent of the estate
16,300
26 per cent of the estate
11,200
18 per cent of the estate
7,600
12 per cent of the estate
3,800
6 per cent of the estate
2,500
4 per cent of the estate
Budget performance and examination outcomes
₦168.4B was appropriated to education across the Ministry and its eight boards, of which ₦152.8B has been released — 90.7 per cent. Education is 27.4 per cent of the State budget, above the twenty-six per cent benchmark.
Appropriated against released, by board
Naira, financial year to date.
Budget by board
| Board | Appropriated | Released | Performance | Share of sector |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SUBEB | ₦74.6bn | ₦68.2bn | 91.4% | 44.3% |
| KSSMB | ₦31.4bn | ₦28.9bn | 92% | 18.6% |
| Ministry (headquarters) | ₦18.9bn | ₦17.4bn | 92.1% | 11.2% |
| EDTFB | ₦16.2bn | ₦14.1bn | 87% | 9.6% |
| KSQISMB | ₦12.6bn | ₦11.2bn | 88.9% | 7.5% |
| STSB | ₦8.4bn | ₦7.6bn | 90.5% | 5% |
| AGMEd | ₦3.1bn | ₦2.7bn | 87.1% | 1.8% |
| KSLB | ₦1.9bn | ₦1.6bn | 84.2% | 1.1% |
| PVIB | ₦1.3bn | ₦1.1bn | 84.6% | 0.8% |
| Total | ₦168.4B | ₦152.8B | 90.7% | 100% |
Examination pass rates
Percentage of Kano State candidates achieving five credits or better, including English Language and Mathematics, by series and year.
Entries by examination series
| Code | Examination | Level | Entries | Centres | Entry fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BECE | Basic Education Certificate Examination | JSS 3 | 214,800 | 620 | ₦3,500 |
| SSCE | Senior School Certificate Examination (NECO) | SS 3 | 141,200 | 268 | ₦21,500 |
| WASSCE | West African Senior School Certificate Examination | SS 3 | 138,400 | 268 | ₦27,500 |
| CE | Common Entrance Examination | Primary 6 | 268,400 | 1,180 | ₦1,500 |
| QE | Qualifying Examination | JSS 3 | 208,600 | 620 | ₦2,000 |
| QISC | Qur'anic and Islamic Studies Certificate | Tsangaya / Islamiyya | 46,200 | 310 | ₦1,000 |
| TTT | Technical Trade Test | Trade 3 | 8,400 | 22 | ₦6,500 |
| ALC | Adult Literacy Certificate | Literacy Level 3 | 21,400 | 96 | No charge |
| PT | Placement Test | Any | 11,600 | 44 | ₦1,000 |
Where these numbers come from
Enrolment, teacher and infrastructure figures come from the Annual School Census, taken in week six of the first term by trained enumerators visiting every school in the State with a tablet. Budget figures come from the Appropriation Law and the monthly release warrants issued by the State Treasury. Examination figures come from the Examinations Unit for the series the Ministry administers, and from the centre returns filed by WAEC, NECO and NABTEB for the series it coordinates.
Every indicator on this page is disaggregated by sex, because an aggregate that is not disaggregated conceals the one thing the sector is judged on. Where a figure for the current session is still provisional it is marked as such in the underlying dataset, and revisions are logged rather than made silently.
None of this is a picture of a table in a PDF. The datasets behind every chart on this page are published in CSV and JSON on the open data portal under an open licence, so anyone can reproduce a chart, check a total or challenge a trend without asking the Ministry’s permission.
Every school behind every number
The school register that produces these statistics is searchable, school by school, by board, local government area, category and level.