There are 10,194 government schools located in sri lanka. Accordingly 353 national schools and 9,841 provincial schools have in sri lanka. 

What are the number of schools allocated in the language of Sri Lanka?

• Sinhala medium                                              – 6,332

• Tamil medium                                                  – 3,009

• Sinhala & Tamil medium                         – 75

• Sinhala & English medium                     – 558

• Tamil & English medium                         – 173

• Sinhala, Tamil & English medium    – 47

From the total schools, 6,332 schools (62 %) are Sinhala medium schools while students of 47 schools offer all number of three mediums. Three or more subjects for at least one grade are taught in English medium in 778 schools distributed throughout the island.

Also 1,029 schools having advanced level science stream classes, 1,818 schools having advanced level Arts and or Commerce streams but no Science stream, 3,288 schools having classes only up to grade 11, 4,059 schools having classes from grade 1 to 5 or 1 to 8 have “according to the sri lanka school census report in 2017”.

What are the details of the schools located in provinces?

• Central province                       – 1,519

• Western province                     – 1,359

• North western province      – 1,256

• Sabaragamuwa province   – 1,129

• Southern province                   – 1,112

• Eastern province                      – 1,110

• Northern province                   – 997

• Uva province                                 – 900

• North central province         – 812

How are schools located in provinces according to the student population?

“according to the school census report in 2017 / Page number 07 “