In the past academic year, 750,000 students dropped out of school because of poverty, including 150,000 at the primary level.
According to Kolbarnews, the head of the Stationery Union in Tehran announced that in the last school year, more than 750,000 students across the country left school because their families could not afford educational expenses. He stated that 150,000 of them were in primary school.
Mohsen Golestani, head of the union, pointed to the financial strain caused by educational costs, saying: “The heavy costs of schooling, purchasing stationery, and other necessities have placed many families in deep crisis, leading to hundreds of thousands of children being deprived of education.”
The phenomenon of school dropouts in Iran is especially widespread in disadvantaged regions of the country. Education experts and child rights activists have repeatedly warned about the growing scale of this crisis.
According to a report by the Statistics Center of the Association of Human Rights Activists in Iran, in 2024, at least three million students nationwide were deprived of education, a figure that represents a serious alarm bell for the future of education and society in Iran.
