The schools we have developed in our first five years are scattered around Kathmandu and Patan cities and are all primary with three being lower secondary or full secondary also. They are all community or government schools and in some cases cater exclusively for "the children nobody else wants" such as the children of street vendors, migrant workers, domestic child workers or the Dalit caste. The education system in Nepal is quite different from the UK where the community provides the building and virtually all of the educational materials and resources with the government providing teacher's salaries. In all cases the number of teachers permitted is based on the number of children in the school but practically speaking most schools are under-staffed and have to find and pay for teachers themselves from community donations. The standard of teacher training is quite low in many cases with older teachers having received virtually no training after leaving school with their "School Leaving Certificate" after class/year 10!   However some of our seven schools have been outstanding in implementing our training and teaching methods. They are model examples of "best practice" which the Nepali Ministry of Education and other schools should take note of. A typical example of one school in Patan has shown a steady improvement in it's achievement, enrolments and completions over the past five years. Their key measures are shown in the table below and are way above the Nepal National averages. On a wider note, the average number of children completing primary years in our schools has increased from 86% in 2006 to 94% in 2011. In addition the relative numbers of children in our schools has increased by almost 13% at a time of political and economic turmoil in the country.

Bal Bigyan/Year	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Total number of students	169	187	202	235	275	288
New enrolments	29	39	42	54	75	81
Students completing year	136	165	166	200	255	286
Students passing year exams	127	158	160	187	251	284