Number of pupils and teachers at general education institutions

8.4. NUMBER OF PUPILS AND TEACHERS
AT GENERAL EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS
(at the beginning of academic year; thou. persons)

	1993/ 94	1995/ 96	2000/ 01	2004/ 05	2005/ 06	2006/ 07	2007/ 08	2008/ 09
Number of pupils in general education institutions - total	21081	22039	20554	16631	15631	14787	14174	13826
of which:
day-time	20597	21567	20074	16168	15185	14362	13766	13437
out of them:
public and municipal	20565	21521	20013	16098	15113	14291	13695	13363
non-public	32	46	61	70	72	71	71	73
public and municipal evening (shift-type) incl.correspondence course students	484	472	480	463	446	425	408	389
Number of teachers in general education institutions - total	1649	1717	1767	1633	1594	1536	1485	1425
out of them:
public and municipal	1641	1705	1751	1614	1575	1517	1467	1407
non-public	8	12	16	18	19	19	18	18

At the beginning of the academic year 2008/09 in the
Russian Federation there were 1487 gymnasium (959 thou. pupils), 1081 lyceums (631 thou. pupils).