PLE Statistics Over The Years
An analysis of the number of pupils who have shown up for Primary Leaving Exams in the last five years has shown a general increment in the numbers from 2017 to 2022. The figures include pupils from schools under the free Universal Primary Education (UPE) programme and others outside of it.
In 2022, a total of 832,654 pupils registered for PLE in 14,691 centres across Uganda from both UPE and non-UPE schools. This was an increment of 82,893 pupils from 2020.
UNEB did not provide statistics for 2021 since PLE was not conducted due to the COVID-19 induced lockdown.
For the 2020 exams, a total of 749,761 pupils registered for PLE in 14,300 centres across the country.
In 2019, a total of 695,804 pupils registered for PLE in 13,475 centres across Uganda.
There was a similar rise in 2018 from 2017 whereby 671,923 pupils registered for PLE in 13,072 centres.
In 2017, a total of 646,190 pupils registered for PLE in 12,751 centres countrywide.
There was also a noticeable consistent rise in the number of UPE and non-UPE candidates registered for PLE in the five year period from 2017 to 2022.
