Education in Haiti: key figures, challenges and the role of digital tools

Education in Haiti in numbers

On December 11, 2025, the Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training (MENFP) presented the results of the 2024-2025 school census. Launched in March 2025, it was published in the Statistical Yearbook of Education. It counts 18,241 schools across the country's ten departments, 4,028,897 students and 116,939 teachers.

At the level of a single school, these figures work out to an average of about 220 students per school and 34 students per teacher. Behind these averages, situations vary widely: large urban schools with several thousand students, small community schools in rural areas, religious-order schools, vocational schools.

A system largely carried by the non-public sector

In Haiti, most students attend a non-public school: secular private schools, religious-order schools, community schools or schools supported by organizations. In the 2015-2016 school census, 78% of enrolled students were in the non-public sector, compared with 22% in the public sector.

For these thousands of schools, management rests with the school leadership itself: enrolling students, tracking tuition and family payments, calculating averages, preparing report cards and the honor roll, keeping the accounts, responding to requests from the ministry. This work is still largely done on paper, in notebooks and scattered files.

How Haitian schools are organized

The school pathway follows the MENFP structure:

• Preschool, before entering Grade 1 of fundamental school.
• Fundamental school, nine years in three cycles: Grades 1 to 4 (1st cycle), Grades 5 and 6 (2nd cycle), Grades 7 to 9 (3rd cycle). It ends with the official state exams of Grade 9 (9e AF, end of fundamental school).
• Secondary school, from NS1 to NS4, up to the end-of-secondary state exams.
• Higher education and vocational training, in universities, vocational schools and training centers.

The difficulties schools face

• Interrupted school years. Insecurity, population displacement, natural disasters: in several regions, schools close or relocate, and students change schools in the middle of the year.
• The cost for families. In the non-public sector, tuition is paid by families, often in installments. The school needs to know who paid what, and families need receipts.
• Scattered information. Grades in notebooks, lists in Excel files, exchanges on WhatsApp: finding a student's file or redoing a report card takes time, and a lost document is often lost for good.
• Electricity and connectivity. Power and internet go down often. A tool that requires a permanent connection does not fit the reality of schools.
• Distance from families. Many parents work far from the school, sometimes abroad, and only learn their child's results when the report card is handed out.

Digital tools, a lever within schools' reach

The phone is already part of daily life. According to DataReportal, at the end of 2025 Haiti had about 10.1 million mobile connections, equivalent to 84.6% of the population, and 4.69 million internet users.

For a Haitian school, useful digital tools are therefore not about major equipment, but about tools that take conditions on the ground into account:

• They are used first and foremost on a phone.
• They keep working when the internet goes down, and send the data as soon as the connection returns.
• They speak Creole as much as French.
• They do not require re-entering everything: they start from the lists the school already has.
• They protect student data and never mix it from one school to another.

What the ministry is preparing

The MENFP has made data reliability and the modernization of school management a priority project. After publishing the 2024-2025 census, in January 2026 it opened preparatory workshops for a National Conference on the overhaul of the education system.

For schools, the consequence is concrete: those that keep complete, up-to-date records (students, classes, teachers, results) will be best prepared to respond to the ministry's requests and to take part in this modernization.

What Skoleda brings to Haitian schools

Skoleda is a school management software designed for schools in Haiti by Cybalgo. It brings together in one place what used to be scattered:

• Students and classes, from preschool to secondary school, following the MENFP cycles.
• Grades, report cards and the honor roll, calculated automatically from the grades entered.
• Tuition, with payments, receipts and each student's balance.
• Attendance, taken by class session, with absence statistics.
• The parent portal, to follow schooling from Haiti or from abroad.
• An AI tutor, that goes over lessons with students, in Creole as well as French.

Sources

1. Le Nouvelliste — MENFP Shares Key Data from the 2024-2025 National School Census (December 16, 2025)
2. Le Nouvelliste — Education Reform: MENFP Launches Preparatory Workshops Ahead of National Conference (January 2026)
3. Joint submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review (Haiti), citing the 2015-2016 school census
4. DataReportal — Digital 2026: Haiti