page_title: Simplon, Valais
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Simplon, Valais / Education
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Simplon-Dorf: Schulhausplatz
context_page_description: Simplon, earlier known as Simpeln, is a municipality in the district of Brig in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
context_section_description: In Simplon about 97 or (29.1%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 15 or (4.5%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule).  Of the 15 who completed tertiary schooling, 73.3% were Swiss men, 26.7% were Swiss women.
  During the 2010-2011 school year there were a total of 13 students in the Simplon school system.  The education system in the Canton of Valais allows young children to attend one year of non-obligatory Kindergarten.  During that school year, there were no kindergarten classes (KG1 or KG2) and there were no kindergarten students.  The canton's school system requires students to attend six years of primary school.  In Simplon there were a total of 2 classes and 13 students in the primary school.  The secondary school program consists of three lower, obligatory years of schooling (orientation classes), followed by three to five years of optional, advanced schools.  All the lower secondary students from Simplon attend their school in a neighboring municipality.  All the upper secondary students attended school in another municipality.
  As of 2000, there was one student in Simplon who came from another municipality, while 2 residents attended schools outside the municipality.
caption: School house plaza in Simplon
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