Schools in Afghanistan Today

Schools in Afghanistan today still operate for large numbers of boys, and younger girls often attend primary grades. The sharp break comes after early secondary thresholds for girls - where formal schooling largely stops under current restrictions.

At the same time, education quality challenges affect everyone: UNESCO/UNICEF reporting has highlighted weak foundational learning, infrastructure gaps, and thousands of schools damaged or closed by conflict and disasters over years of instability.

Even where schools in Afghanistan today are open, many lack reliable water, sanitation, or heating. Teacher shortages - especially of trained women teachers - grow as women are pushed out of professional pathways.

Boys’ higher-education enrollment has also fallen sharply in some reporting compared with pre-2021 levels, showing the crisis is not limited to one gender even though girls carry the heaviest formal ban.

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