The Education System in Puerto Rico

Education in the country has 3 main levels: Primary (elementary school), Secondary (intermediate and high school) and Higher Level. Primary or elementary school level is consisting of grades 1-6 and the secondary or high school level is from grades 7-12.

The Constitution of the republic of Puerto Rico allows the right to a teaching to all citizens on the island and public schools offer without charge. There were 569 private schools and 1532 public schools in the islands since 1999. The private schools in the country are managed by non-political institutions. Since 2002, the skill rate of the country’s population was 94.1%. 60% of the population has a high school degree while bachelor's degree holder is 18.3%. The country financed the public school organization and managed by the Department of Education in Puerto Rico. The employee of the said department has more than 45,000 instructors; 32,000 of which are permanent or full-time tenure ships. The remaining instructors are signed-up on yearly basis which are also called temporary status.

The largest private college system in Puerto Rico is the Sistema Universitario Ana G. Mendez which controls the Metropolitan University, Universidad del Este and Universidad del Turabo. The Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, Pontificial Catholic University and Inter American University are the multi-campus in the country. University of Puerto Rico is the largest and oldest public university organization in the country and has 11 campuses. The country has more than 50 institutions of higher education, 4 Medicine and 4 Law Schools.