Education in numbers Portugal 2022, DGEEC annual report
11-08-2022
In the 2020/21 school year, the secondary education retention rate stood at 8.1%, 0.3 percentage points (pp) less than in the previous school year, but 22.5 pp below the 2005/2005 rate. 2006, In the same period, the total number of students who completed secondary education almost doubled and the number of those who completed vocational courses in secondary education more than tripled.
