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Moshi
Urban
1 20 25 24
Total 35 685 711 707
Source: : Kilimanjaro Region Education Office, 1998
TABLE: XLIII(a) DISTRIBUTION OF PRIMARY SCHOOLS AND PUPILS BY
DISTRICT KILIMANJARO REGION 1998
District No. of Pupils No. of Schools No. of Villages
Rombo 50,991 122 57
Moshi Rural 74,836 191 150
Hai 41,568 140 65
Moshi Urban 19,062 24 -
Same 40,964 141 72
Mwanga 26,130 89 58
Total 253,551 707 402
Source: Regional Education Office, Kilimanjaro, 1998
The five rural district councils and one municipality have a total of
707 primary schools. Thus a good number of villages among 402
villages have on average 2 primary schools each. In effect, each
village in Rombo, Hai and Same rural districts has two primary
schools.
Table XLIII(a) shows that Moshi rural has more primary school is
the region and Moshi Urban the least. However there are more
people in Moshi Urban district per school, 4,027/school (Table
XLIII(b)) Mwanga which is the second least in the number of
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