At least 77,080 (19.04 per cent) candidates who sat the 2025 Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) are ungraded, the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) has said.
While releasing the results at State Lodge, Nakasero in Kampala on Friday, UNEB executive director, Mr Dan Odongo said out of the 817,883 candidates who registered at 15,388 examination centres, at least 91,990 students passed in Division One, 388,293 in Division Two, 165,226 in Division Three and 84,724 in Division Four.
“Of this (registered) number, 522,036 (63.8 per cent) from 11,525 centres were Universal Primary Education (UPE) beneficiaries, and 295,847 (36.2 per cent) of the candidates from 3,863 centres were Non UPE,” Mr Odongo said.
In 2025, analysis by gender shows that 389,469 (47.6 per cent) boys were registered compared to 428,324 (52.4 per cent) girls, indicating that more girls than boys completed the Primary Education cycle.
“This has been the trend in recent years. The percentage was 52.5 per cent for the girls in 2024 whereas for the boys it was 47.5 per cent. The Board registered 3,636 learners with Special Needs of various ategories, including the blind, the deaf, the physically handicapped and the dyslexics, compared to 3,328 in 2024,” Mr Odongo added.