Education in Honduras

The education system in Honduras has four levels: pre-primary (pre-básica), primary and lower secondary (básica), upper secondary (media), and post-secondary (media superior).

Compulsory education includes 13 years, covering the last year of preschool, nine years of primary and lower secondary and three years of upper secondary.

While Honduras has made significant progress in expanding access to primary education, enrollment in other levels of schooling is still lagging. The main challenges are low access to preschool and secondary education as well as weak learning outcomes across the education system, low number of trained teachers and insufficient learning materials.

Honduras' Education sector plan (Plan Estrategico del Sector Educacion), covering the 2018-2030 period, provides a vision of the transformations that the national education system requires by 2030.

The country has improved sector planning and monitoring, but coordination among government institutions in charge of education need to be strengthened.

Civil society groups (e.g.: parents’ and students’ groups and local communities) attempt to engage in sector dialogue but the lack of capacity and clear lines for dialogue with the government impede meaningful contributions to education policy.

There is a well-established development partners group (Mesa Redonda de Cooperantes Externos en Educación), however many donors work independently with the government.

As part of its investment in civil society advocacy and social accountability efforts, GPE’s Education Out Loud fund is supporting Foro Dakar Honduras for the 2020-2023 period. This builds on previous support from the Civil Society Education Fund (CSEF).

Learn more

• Honduras is part of the KIX LAC hub and has a KIX national delegation.
• KIX research projects:
• Strategies to prevent sexual and gender-based violence and foster equity in rural schools 
• Adapting and scaling teacher professional development approaches in Ghana, Honduras and Uzbekistan
• Adapting and scaling peer tutoring for teachers and school leaders for equitable rural education
• Digital Adaptations for Effective and Inclusive Distance Learning in Rural Communities in Honduras and Nicaragua
• Improving Literacy for Children Through the Support of Community Networks
• Using data for improving education equity and inclusion – MICS-EAGLE