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Latest figures from the Department of Education (DepEd) reveal that net enrolment ratio (NER) or participation rate¹ at elementary level for SY 2006-2007 was 83.2 percent, lower by 1.2 percentage points from the previous school year.  As shown in Table 1, NER is on a decreasing trend from SY 2002-2003 to SY 2006-2007.   At the regional level, declines in NER were noted in all regions during the five-year period, except for NCR and Caraga which exhibited increases but only in SY 2006-2007.  Zamboanga Peninsula posted the largest decrease of 12.1 percentage points, followed by Western Visayas and CAR with 11.0 and 10.6 percentage points, respectively.  In terms of regional rankings for NER, NCR, Central Luzon and CALABARZON topped the other regions during the five-year period.

Table 1. Net Enrolment Ratio (NER) in Elementary Education by Region:
SY 2002-2003 to SY 2006-2007
(in percent)

Region	SY 02-03	Rank	SY 03-04	Rank	SY 04-05	Rank	SY 05-06	Rank	SY 06-07	Rank
Philippines	90.3		88.7		87.1		84.4		83.2
NCR	97.4	1	96.8	1	94.8	2	92.6	2	92.9	1
CAR	91.5	5	89.2	7	86.4	8	82.6	8	80.9	8
I - Ilocos	89.6	9	88.5	8	87.0	7	84.9	6	82.7	7
II - Cagayan Valley	86.7	12	85.7	10	82.9	12	79.9	12	77.7	13
III - Central Luzon	93.6	3	93.6	3	92.0	3	90.8	3	89.1	3
IV-A – CALABARZON	96.0	2	95.3	2	95.1	1	92.9	1	92.4	2
IV-B – MIMAROPA	91.5	5	89.4	5	88.0	5	84.4	7	83.8	5
V - Bicol	91.0	7	89.3	6	87.8	6	85.4	5	83.8	6
VI - Western Visayas	86.0	13	83.3	15	80.5	15	77.1	16	75.0	17
VII - Central Visayas	88.1	11	85.6	11	83.5	10	80.1	10	78.9	10
VIII - Eastern Visayas	85.9	14	83.7	14	83.4	11	80.0	11	78.2	11
IX – Zamboanga Peninsula	89.7	8	84.8	12	82.8	13	79.1	13	77.6	14
X - Northern Mindanao	89.0	10	86.9	9	84.2	9	80.2	9	79.0	9
XI – Davao Region	85.0	15	84.4	13	82.5	14	79.0	14	75.9	16
XII – SOCCSKSARGEN	82.0	16	81.2	16	80.0	16	77.4	15	76.4	15
XIII – Caraga	80.7	17	78.0	17	75.1	17	74.8	17	77.8	12
ARMM	92.7	4	90.1	4	90.0	4	87.3	4	85.8	4

Source of data: Department of Education

At the secondary level, NER increased barely by 0.1 percentage point in SY 2006-2007 and as shown in Table 2, NER was steady at 58 to 60 percent in the last five years.  Figures show that 12 out of the 17 regions experienced declines in NER from SY 2002-2003 to SY 2006-2007, with the Mindanao regions having the lowest NERs.  Although ARMM had the lowest NER during the five-year period, it posted the biggest improvement with an increase of 8.9 percentage points, from 23.7% in SY 2002-2003 to 32.6% in SY 2006-2007.

Table 2. Net Enrolment Ratio (NER) in Secondary Education by Region:
SY 2002-2003 to SY 2006-2007
(in percent)

Region	SY 02-03	Rank	SY 03-04	Rank	SY 04-05	Rank	SY 05-06	Rank	SY 06-07	Rank
Philippines	59.0		60.2		60.0		58.5		58.6
NCR	75.3	1	76.4	1	76.4	1	75.0	1	75.1	1
CAR	59.6	5	61.8	5	60.7	5	57.8	6	59.1	5
I - Ilocos	68.3	2	68.1	4	67.0	4	65.8	4	68.2	4
II - Cagayan Valley	59.5	6	61.7	6	60.6	6	59.0	5	58.9	7
III - Central Luzon	67.7	4	69.4	3	69.8	3	68.9	3	69.1	3
IV-A - CALABARZON	68.2	3	70.2	2	70.9	2	69.1	2	71.3	2
IV-B - MIMAROPA	57.6	7	58.4	7	57.8	7	56.1	7	58.9	6
V - Bicol	54.9	10	55.6	10	55.8	10	53.2	10	54.3	8
VI - Western Visayas	57.3	8	57.9	9	57.0	9	54.9	8	52.9	10
VII - Central Visayas	57.3	9	58.4	8	57.4	8	54.8	9	53.9	9
VIII - Eastern Visayas	49.0	16	50.0	14	50.6	14	50.1	13	49.9	12
IX – Zamboanga Peninsula	49.2	15	49.3	16	50.5	15	47.2	16	47.7	16
X - Northern Mindanao	53.4	11	53.8	12	52.1	12	51.3	12	51.2	11
XI – Davao Region	52.6	13	52.1	13	51.2	13	49.0	14	47.8	15
XII - SOCCSKSARGEN	53.4	12	53.9	11	55.2	11	51.3	11	48.9	14
XIII - Caraga	49.8	14	49.7	15	49.7	16	48.5	15	48.9	13
ARMM	23.7	17	29.3	17	28.4	17	35.6	17	32.6	17

Source of data: Department of Education

These figures for both elementary and secondary education indicate that the country is still far from achieving the goal of providing basic education to all based on UNESCO’s World Declaration on Education for All (EFA), UN’s Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on education as well as the Philippine EFA 2015 Plan.  

Among the provinces, for SY 2006-2007, Davao del Sur had the lowest NER for elementary level at 63.5 percent and Sulu for secondary level at 15.2 percent.  Majority of the provinces in the bottom 20 for NER for both elementary and secondary levels are from Mindanao.  It is noted that at the secondary level, those provinces in the bottom 20 list have NER way below 50 percent.

Table 3. 20 Provinces with Lowest NER in Elementary and Secondary Education:
SY 2006-2007
(in percent)

Elementary				Secondary
Region	Province	NER	Rank	Region	Province	NER	Rank
XI	Davao del Sur	63.5	79	ARMM	Sulu	15.2	79
X	Lanao del Norte	65.1	78	ARMM	Maguindanao	18.3	78
ARMM	Sulu	66.2	77	ARMM	Tawi-Tawi	21.5	77
XII	Sultan Kudarat	68.4	76	ARMM	Basilan	22.5	76
XII	Sarangani	69.2	75	XI	Davao del Sur	31.9	75
ARMM	Basilan	69.4	74	XII	Sarangani	33.7	74
IX	Zamboanga del Sur	69.6	73	X	Lanao del Norte	36.0	73
VII	Negros Oriental	69.7	72	VII	Negros Oriental	37.7	72
ARMM	Maguindano	70.5	71	IX	Zamboanga del Norte	38.2	71
XI	Compostela Valley	70.7	70	XI	Davao Oriental	38.3	70
IX	Zamboanga Sibugay	71.1	69	XII	Sultan Kudarat	41.3	69
XI	Davao del Norte	71.8	68	V	Masbate	41.9	68
XIII	Surigao del Norte	72.2	67	IX	Zamboanga Sibugay	42.0	67
III	Aurora	72.3	66	X	Bukidnon	42.1	66
VI	Antique	72.7	65	XI	Davao del Norte	42.6	65
VI	Negros Occidental	73.0	64	IX	Zamboanga del Sur	42.7	64
VIII	Southern Leyte	73.6	63	VIII	Samar (Western Samar)	42.8	63
XII	South Cotabato	73.6	62	XII	North Cotabato	44.1	62
VIII	Leyte	73.7	61	XI	Compostella Valley	44.2	61
VI	Iloilo	73.8	60	XIII	Surigao del Sur	44.3	60

Source of data: Department of Education

In terms of the results of the National Achievement Test (NAT)², Eastern Visayas and Caraga placed first and second, both at the elementary and secondary levels for SY 2006-2007 with mean percentage scores of 74.1 and 71.9, respectively, at elementary level and 64.2 and 62.9, respectively at secondary level.  Both regions did very well in the NAT but had low NERs.

Table 4. Mean Percentage Scores in the National Achievement Test (NAT)
in Elementary and Secondary Education: SY 2006-2007

Region	Mean Percentage Scores
	Elementary	Rank	Secondary	Rank
Philippines	59.9		46.6
NCR	60.2	8	43.1	14
CAR	57.9	12	45.8	9
I - Ilocos	61.7	7	51.5	3
II - Cagayan Valley	58.0	11	43.6	11
III - Central Luzon	63.4	4	47.2	5
IV-A - CALABARZON	63.3	5	46.1	8
IV-B - MIMAROPA	67.1	3	47.2	5
V - Bicol	54.6	14	41.5	16
VI - Western Visayas	53.8	15	44.8	10
VII - Central Visayas	58.9	9	46.9	7
VIII - Eastern Visayas	74.1	1	64.2	1
IX – Zamboanga Peninsula	61.8	6	47.2	4
X - Northern Mindanao	56.1	13	43.4	13
XI – Davao Region	58.8	10	43.5	12
XII - SOCCSKSARGEN	51.3	16	41.2	17
XIII - Caraga	71.9	2	62.9	2
ARMM	45.1	17	42.6	15

Source of data: NETRC, Department of Education

 

 

 

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