Monaco - Education

Education is offered in Monaco from the preschool to the secondary and technical levels and is compulsory from age 6 to 16. Attendance is 90%, and virtually all adults are literate. In the latter half of the 1990s, approximately 5.3% of total government expenditure was allocated to education.

In 1997, Monaco's seven public primary schools had a total of 1,919 students enrolled. In the same year, secondary schools enrolled 2,886 students and employed 281 teachers. The pupil-teacher ratio at the primary level was estimated at 16 to 1 in 1999.