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Moshi (U)<br />
Total<br />
Boys<br />
Girls<br />
Total<br />
Boys<br />
Girls<br />
Total<br />
1372<br />
1403<br />
2775<br />
20396<br />
20044<br />
40440<br />
1520<br />
1475<br />
2995<br />
20572<br />
20130<br />
40702<br />
1533<br />
1550<br />
3083<br />
1918<br />
1<br />
1921<br />
4<br />
3839<br />
5<br />
1361<br />
1431<br />
2792<br />
1781<br />
7<br />
1805<br />
4<br />
3587<br />
1<br />
1328<br />
1337<br />
2665<br />
1691<br />
6<br />
1695<br />
2<br />
3386<br />
8<br />
1144<br />
1270<br />
2414<br />
14515<br />
15409<br />
29924<br />
1160<br />
1178<br />
2338<br />
16540<br />
17861<br />
34401<br />
9418<br />
9644<br />
19062<br />
125937<br />
127664<br />
253601<br />
Source:<br />
Regional Commissioner's Office - <strong>Kilimanjaro</strong>.<br />
In most primary schools in almost all regions, the number of girls<br />
per class tend to decrease as they proceed to class VII. In most<br />
cases too, one finds that the decrease in the number of girls in<br />
schools begins in class V, but in <strong>Kilimanjaro</strong> this is not the case as<br />
evidenced by table XLVIII. It is observed that the number of<br />
boys enrolled exceeded the number of girls only in lower classes<br />
of I, II, III and IV. The trend changed from Class IV, where the<br />
number of boys dropped from 16,916 in Class V to 14,515 in<br />
Class VI, while the number of girls dropped from 16,952 in class<br />
V to only 15,409 in class VI. It has been a common phenomenon<br />
to find a large number of girls dropping out from higher classes of<br />
V, VI, and VII in many regions due to either pregnancy or forced<br />
into marriage by relatives or simply for truancy reasons.<br />
Surprisingly enough, these reasons seem not to apply very much in<br />
<strong>Kilimanjaro</strong> region as explained above. In this regard, some<br />
people may wish to find out why girls in primary schools in<br />
<strong>Kilimanjaro</strong> are more serious with schooling than those in other<br />
regions. However, the most striking thing about the enrolment in<br />
primary schools is that the number of girls has tended to exceed<br />
the number of boys in 1987, 1988 and in 1990, suggesting more<br />
stability in girls in school attendance than boys.<br />
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