Editing São Vicente, Cape Verde (section)

== Education ==
The literacy rate is 85%, and 98.9% among Cape Verdean youth. 54% of the island's population (those aged between 1 and 12 years old) receive education.  Here are the schools and classrooms in São Vicente:
*'''Preschool''' – 25 daycares, the majority with a particular character, about 2,600 attendees between the ages of 1 and 6
*'''Primary Schools''' (1st year to 6th year) – 11,000 students in 225 classrooms with 379 teachers.
*'''Secondary Education''' (7th year to 12th year) – 8,000 students in 146 classrooms with 384 professors

===Educational institutions===
The island has 35 primary schools, many of which are in Mindelo, there are other schools in Calhau, Salamansa and São Pedro.

There are five state schools, attended by 8,350 pupils during the 2004–05 school season:
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*Liceu Ludjero Lima, with 2,384 students
*Escola Industrial E Comercial Do Mindelo, with 2,245 students
*[[Escola Jorge Barbosa|Escola Secundária Jorge Barbosa]], with 1,593 students
*Escola Secundária José Augusto Pinto, with 1,385 students
*Escola Salesiana, with 743 students
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====Private schools====
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*Académica do Mindelo – unrelated to the football (soccer) club, today partly related
*Wille
*Centro Técnico Do Mindelo
*Cooperativa Ensino Técnico Do Mindelo
*Cruzeiro
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====Post-secondary education====
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*[[University of Cape Verde]], Faculty of Engineering and Maritime Sciences and School of Business and Governance
*[[University of Mindelo]] – Cape Verde's third university
*Instituto Superior de Ciências Económicas Empresariais
*Instituto Superior de Educação [High Educational Institute] (campus), part of the University of Cape Verde
*[[Jean Piaget University of Cape Verde]] (campus)
*Mindelo Escolas Internacional de Artes (Mindelo International School of Arts)
*Universidade Lusófona
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===Other institutions and observatories===
Other academic and research institutions include the INDP Instituto Nacional de Desenvolvimento das Pescas and with it the Cape Verde Ocean Observatory CVOO.  It also has the CVAO, the [https://www.ncas.ac.uk/en/cvao-home Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory], associated with the [[University of York]] (UK), IFT Leipzig (Germany), Max Planck, Jena (Germany) and the Cape Verdean meteorological institute (INMG).