Note: Figures can exceed 100% due to students repeating years, students who change schools being recorded twice, and a range of other underlying data quality issues.
Primary and lower secondary school enrolments in Kosovo have been high since at least 2009-10. As of 2013-14, no less than 95.5% of eligible students were enrolled in any given year. This suggests that very few children in Kosovo are missing out on this basic education and helps ensure basic literacy, mathematics and English tuition for young people.
There has also been steady growth in the total number of students attending upper secondary and tertiary education. The gross enrolment rate in upper secondary education (general and VET) in 2011-12 was 92.1% - 5.2% points higher than in 2009-10. Additionally, the gross enrolment rate in Kosovo was significantly higher than other countries in the region, such as Croatia (87%), Bosnia & Herzegovina (86%), Serbia (86%) and Macedonia (78%). The percentage of students dropping out of upper secondary education has also decreased. By the end of the 2011-12 year, the dropout rate from upper secondary schools was 2.5%, compared to 3.1% for 2009-2010.
Similarly, there was steady growth in the total number of students attending tertiary education in Kosovo. This was mainly due to the increasing number of private and public higher education institutions and the limited number of employment opportunities. The enrolment rate in tertiary education in 2010-2011 was estimated to be around 57% of the eligible population based on age, where 67% of those who graduated from upper secondary schools were able to pursue tertiary education.