Primary education is provided for children aged from 6 to 11 years.
The net enrolment rate in 2011 was 97%, which is comparable with
the average for ASEAN Member States, but the ‘survival rate’ of
students to the final year of primary education was only 69% in
2010 (see Table 3.2). Of those remaining in primary school until
Grade 6, the transition rate from primary to secondary education
is in the order of 80%.32 Cambodia has made remarkable recent
progress in expanding the provision of primary education. Between
2005 and 2012, for example, the net enrolment rate increased from 91.3% to 97%.33 The expansion
has been most evident in the more remote parts of the country, where new primary schools have
been built and existing ones extended, and there have also been improvement in participation rate
for girls.