Education in El Salvador

As of 2019, more than half of the children in El Salvador at late primary age were not proficient in reading. Many of the students that made it past primary school soon dropped out of secondary school.

El Salvador has prioritized achieving quality early childhood learning, with a focus on equality and inclusion. Working with GPE and its partners, the country aims to increase the access and quality of early childhood learning, especially to girls from the earliest years by revising curriculums, defining quality standards for educational services and developing teacher training with a gender perspective.

Investing in early years will help ensure that all children enter primary education ready to learn and are less likely to fall behind, especially the most vulnerable children.

A $10 million Multiplier grant combined with $5 million from GPE’s Girls’ Education Accelerator will boost efforts to close the gender gap in education in El Salvador. The targeted funding will address harmful social norms from an early age with the creation of gender-sensitive learning materials and gender-equitable learning assessments.

• El Salvador is part of the KIX Latin America and the Caribbean regional hub and has a KIX national delegation.
• KIX ongoing research projects:
  • AdaptED: Observatory for educational adaptation in Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Scaling a learning through play model for early childhood education in El Salvador
  • Setting the course: the right to education for migrant children in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador

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