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Published: 14 November 2019

Comprehensive schools had 564,100 pupils in 2019

According to Statistics Finland, comprehensive schools had 564,100 pupils in 2019. The number of pupils in comprehensive schools increased by 0.6 per cent from the year before. Forty-nine per cent of the pupils in comprehensive schools were girls and 51 per cent were boys.

Pupils in comprehensive school by region in 2019

Region of school	Active comprehensive schools	Pupils total	Boys	Girls
Whole country, total	2 288	564 100	288 924	275 176
Mainland Finland, total	2 267	561 106	287 393	273 713
Uusimaa	523	170 419	87 364	83 055
Varsinais-Suomi	201	45 382	23 247	22 135
Satakunta	113	21 128	10 849	10 279
Kanta-Häme	83	17 536	9 104	8 432
Pirkanmaa	165	53 622	27 201	26 421
Päijät-Häme	64	19 429	10 001	9 428
Kymenlaakso	81	15 613	7 975	7 638
South Karelia	37	11 528	5 786	5 742
Etelä-Savo	71	12 309	6 377	5 932
Pohjois-Savo	112	23 497	12 101	11 396
North Karelia	74	14 610	7 375	7 235
Central Finland	110	28 794	14 790	14 004
South Ostrobothnia	131	21 077	10 801	10 276
Ostrobothnia	115	20 150	10 395	9 755
Central Ostrobothnia	54	8 268	4 229	4 039
North Ostrobothnia	204	53 610	27 431	26 179
Kainuu	32	6 714	3 456	3 258
Lapland	97	17 420	8 911	8 509
Åland, total	21	2 994	1 531	1 463
Åland	21	2 994	1 531	1 463

In all, 11.6 per cent of comprehensive school pupils received intensified support in autumn 2019 and 8.5 per cent special support. More about this topic in the statistics on special education to be released in June 2020.

In autumn 2019, a total of 437 children of statutory school age were being home-schooled. In autumn 2019, a total of 668 children received a one-year postponement in starting basic education. There were 1,332 children of statutory school age temporarily residing abroad in autumn 2019.

The number of pre-primary education pupils was 59,652 of whom 9,445 were in pre-primary education in schools and 50,207 in day care.

There were 2,288 active comprehensive schools in autumn 2019, which was 53 schools fewer than in the year before. Municipalities ran 95 per cent of the comprehensive schools.

Source: Education. Statistics Finland

Inquiries: Vesa Hämäläinen 029 551 2594, koulutustilastot@stat.fi

Director in charge: Jari Tarkoma

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• Appendix table 1. Pupils in comprehensive schools and with leaving certificates from comprehensive schools by region 2019 (14.11.2019)
• Appendix table 2. Children of compulsory education age outside comprehensive school in 1990 to 2019 (14.11.2019)

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Updated 14.11.2019