A total of 256,385 students were enrolled in 1,714 elementary schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the 2023/2024 school year, which is 3,952 students or 1.5 percent less than the previous school year. The participation of female students in the total number of enrolled students is 48.6 percent.

In the 2023/2024 school year, 27,899 students were enrolled in the first grades of elementary schools, which compared to 2022/2023 is less by 1.3 percent.

Of the total number of students, there were 54.2 percent of students in the lower grades (from the first to the fifth grade), while there were 45.8 percent of the students in the higher grades (from the sixth to the ninth grade), according to the data of the BiH Statistics Agency.

A total of 24,176 teachers were involved in the teaching process in the 2023/2024 school year, of which 18,002 were women or 74.5 percent of them.

The BiH Statistics Agency collects and publishes data obtained on the basis of statistical surveys on education conducted by the entity statistical institutes and the Branch Office of the BiH Statistics Agency in Brcko District of BiH.