Editing Orange Walk Town (section)

==Education==
The quality of education in Orange Walk is among the highest in Belize. Students from Orange Walk frequently score well on standardized examinations 
within and without the country.

The literacy rate of Orange Walk is 72.6%, which is the second-lowest rate in the country after [[Punta Gorda, Belize|Punta Gorda]].
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The school attendance figure is about 55% of males and 45% of females for primary school, 50%-50% for high schools, and 40% of males versus 60% of females attend college.<ref>https://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Challenges-and-Opportunities-in-the-Belize-Education-Sector.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220124082355/https://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Challenges-and-Opportunities-in-the-Belize-Education-Sector.pdf |date=2022-01-24 }} {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref>

In Orange Walk about a quarter of all students surpass 70% on their standardized exams, compared with only 15% doing so in Stann Creek District. Orange Walk has the highest rate of trained teachers in the country, second only to Corozal.

Despite the high quality of education, Orange Walk has the second-highest rate of children aged 5–13 outside of school in the country, at 24.1%.<ref name="autogenerated1"/>

Orange Walk has one of the lowest student budgets in the country, less than half that of Belize City. Most Orange Walk residents pay for education out of their own pockets, spending 12% of their total budgets on it. This is almost double the 7.4% that Toledo residents spend on education.

===Primary schools===
Primary schools include:

* Louisiana Government School
* Chapel School
* New Life Presbyterian Primary School
* Solomon's SDA School
* La Inmaculada Primary School
* St Peter's Anglican School
* Carmelita Government School

===High schools===
High schools in the Orange Walk metropolitan area include:

* Orange Walk Technical High School
* New Hope High School
* Bishop Martin High School
* Muffles High School
* San Juan Bautista High School

===Tertiary schools and colleges===
The following are the tertiary institutions/universities located in Orange Walk:

* Orange Walk ITVET
* Muffles College
* University of Belize Orange Walk Campus
* Galen University