Basic literacy rate
No target set81.0%in 2024
Up from 69.9% in 2019; the plan published no target.
People aged 5 and over who can read and write a simple message and do basic arithmetic.
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Education · Bangsamoro
Public and private, from the village elementary school to the university: where each stands, how the region’s learners are doing against the plan, the scholarships on offer and what the budget gives education.
The education results the Bangsamoro Development Plan tracks, each at its latest published figure. Where the plan set a target, the tick on the bar marks it.
81.0%in 2024
Up from 69.9% in 2019; the plan published no target.
People aged 5 and over who can read and write a simple message and do basic arithmetic.
64.7%in 2024
Down from 71.6% in 2019; the plan published no target.
People aged 10 to 64 who can also understand what they read and draw conclusions from it.
67.7%in 2025
8.7 points short of the plan’s 2025 target of 76.4%.
Children of elementary-school age (6 to 11) who are enrolled in elementary school.
79.1%in 2025
Past the plan’s 2025 target of 74.9%.
Pupils who start Grade 1 and are still in school by Grade 6.
78.8%in 2025
Past the plan’s 2025 target of 69.0%.
Pupils who start Grade 1 and finish elementary school.
160barangays, 2025
Past the plan’s 2025 target of 151 barangays.
Barangays with no school where learning centres and facilitators now give children classes.
Literacy is PSA’s 2024 survey, the lowest of any region, and probably still counts Sulu; the school figures are the ministry’s for school year 2024–25. Functional literacy fell mostly because PSA changed what it measures in 2024. Every figure’s source is on the scorecard.
MBHTE publishes no data of its own, so these are its figures as it and the Parliament stated them, each with where. They count more than DepEd does, madaris and learning centres among them, and do not always agree with each other.
Each dot a school, coloured by its kind: every school on DepEd’s list for school year 2025–26, public and private, and the madaris and colleges OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia add. Open the map to filter it and choose a school.
48 programs and services for students, teachers and schools, from 14 offices, as each office states it.
Learners in school year 2025–26, as DepEd counts them school by school. Classrooms and teachers are published only for public schools, so learners per school is the nearest measure of load there is for all of them.
The Special Geographic Area’s schools, which DepEd still files under their old North Cotabato towns, are counted with the SGA town their barangay is now in.
| Area | Kindergarten | Elementary | High school | College or university | Madrasah or Islamic school | Other school | All |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basilan | – | 220 | 38 | 10 | – | – | 268 |
| Lanao del Sur | – | 775 | 208 | 40 | 4 | 1 | 1,028 |
| Maguindanao del Norte | – | 294 | 60 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 367 |
| Maguindanao del Sur | – | 307 | 75 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 397 |
| Tawi-Tawi | – | 248 | 61 | 9 | – | 1 | 319 |
| Cotabato City | 1 | 45 | 42 | 19 | – | 2 | 109 |
| Special Geographic Area | – | 75 | 30 | 2 | – | – | 107 |
The latest headlines about the region’s schools, students and teachers, each linked to the outlet that reported it.