Number of junior secondary school students in Nigeria 2019, by gender
In the school year 2018/2019, there were around 7.4 million junior secondary school students in Nigeria, which were enrolled in roughly 33 thousand junior secondary schools. The number of male students was slightly higher than that of females. Officially, the junior secondary education age in Nigeria includes students aged 12 to 14 years, while the official entrance age to upper-secondary education is 15 years, with study duration being three years.