Canada: elementary/secondary school enrollment by province 2022

This graph shows the total number of students enrolled in public elementary and secondary schools in Canada in the academic year 2021/22, distinguished by province. In the academic year 2021/22, about 2.03 million students were enrolled in public elementary and secondary schools in Ontario. At this time, there were a total of around 4.96 million students enrolled in public elementary or secondary schools in Canada, a slight increase from the previous year. With a primary school enrollment rate of 99.5 percent in 2017, Canada is one of the countries with the highest share of students in primary schools.

Enrollment in public elementary and secondary schools in Canada in 2021/22, by province

Characteristic	Number of students
Ontario	2,028,690
Quebec	982,734
Alberta	675,504
British Columbia	574,047
Saskatchewan	182,727
Manitoba	182,535
Nova Scotia	125,124
New Brunswick	99,246
Newfoundland and Labrador	63,537
Prince Edward Island	21,063
Nunavut	10,902
Northwest Territories	8,475
Yukon	5,829

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Release date

October 2023

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Canada

Survey time period

2021-2022

Supplementary notes

The enrollment count represents the number of students (headcount) in September (or as close as possible thereafter) of the school year. Adapted from Statistics Canada, statcan.gc.ca, 2021-2022. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.

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