| Table 8. School Attendance and Educational Attainment by District, Morobe: 2000 | ||||||||||
| Total | Bulolo | Finschafen | Huon | Kabwun | Lae | Markham | Menyamya | Nawae | Tawae/Siassi | |
| Total | 453,487 | 65,144 | 38,190 | 50,496 | 35,047 | 101,245 | 42,311 | 54,577 | 29,798 | 36,679 |
| Yes currently | 74,003 | 9,939 | 7,090 | 8,667 | 5,705 | 21,487 | 6,074 | 3,134 | 5,836 | 6,071 |
| In the past but not now | 174,642 | 22,103 | 15,981 | 23,235 | 9,563 | 55,938 | 12,809 | 7,365 | 12,159 | 15,489 |
| Never | 204,842 | 33,102 | 15,119 | 18,594 | 19,779 | 23,820 | 23,428 | 44,078 | 11,803 | 15,119 |
| Males | 235,620 | 34,960 | 18,893 | 26,773 | 16,536 | 55,324 | 21,591 | 27,794 | 15,211 | 18,538 |
| Yes currently | 40,960 | 5,595 | 3,865 | 4,699 | 3,184 | 11,642 | 3,477 | 2,040 | 3,140 | 3,318 |
| In the past but not now | 100,804 | 13,463 | 8,489 | 13,447 | 4,967 | 32,510 | 7,828 | 5,213 | 6,448 | 8,439 |
| Never | 93,856 | 15,902 | 6,539 | 8,627 | 8,385 | 11,172 | 10,286 | 20,541 | 5,623 | 6,781 |
| Females | 217,867 | 30,184 | 19,297 | 23,723 | 18,511 | 45,921 | 20,720 | 26,783 | 14,587 | 18,141 |
| Yes currently | 33,043 | 4,344 | 3,225 | 3,968 | 2,521 | 9,845 | 2,597 | 1,094 | 2,696 | 2,753 |
| In the past but not now | 73,838 | 8,640 | 7,492 | 9,788 | 4,596 | 23,428 | 4,981 | 2,152 | 5,711 | 7,050 |
| Never | 110,986 | 17,200 | 8,580 | 9,967 | 11,394 | 12,648 | 13,142 | 23,537 | 6,180 | 8,338 |
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | ||||||||||
| Total | 237,511 | 30,737 | 21,941 | 30,050 | 14,221 | 75,297 | 17,889 | 9,592 | 17,124 | 20,660 |
| None | 8,035 | 1,339 | 635 | 1,003 | 579 | 1,914 | 748 | 271 | 579 | 967 |
| Primary | 167,497 | 22,984 | 17,581 | 22,791 | 11,759 | 40,021 | 13,934 | 7,652 | 14,226 | 16,549 |
| Secondary | 61,979 | 6,414 | 3,725 | 6,256 | 1,883 | 33,362 | 3,207 | 1,669 | 2,319 | 3,144 |
| Males | 135,918 | 18,319 | 11,797 | 17,143 | 7,666 | 43,209 | 10,704 | 6,663 | 9,125 | 11,292 |
| None | 4,301 | 722 | 321 | 518 | 311 | 1,049 | 405 | 174 | 300 | 501 |
| Primary | 91,463 | 13,246 | 8,972 | 12,415 | 6,067 | 21,529 | 8,041 | 5,202 | 7,272 | 8,719 |
| Secondary | 40,154 | 4,351 | 2,504 | 4,210 | 1,288 | 20,631 | 2,258 | 1,287 | 1,553 | 2,072 |
| Females | 101,593 | 12,418 | 10,144 | 12,907 | 6,555 | 32,088 | 7,185 | 2,929 | 7,999 | 9,368 |
| None | 3,734 | 617 | 314 | 485 | 268 | 865 | 343 | 97 | 279 | 466 |
| Primary | 76,034 | 9,738 | 8,609 | 10,376 | 5,692 | 18,492 | 5,893 | 2,450 | 6,954 | 7,830 |
| Secondary | 21,825 | 2,063 | 1,221 | 2,046 | 595 | 12,731 | 949 | 382 | 766 | 1,072 |
| Source: 2000 Papua New Guinea Census | ||||||||||
| Note: Educational levels may have been miscoded | ||||||||||