YEREVAN. – The 2011 Armenian State Budget spending on education secured a 99-percent execution of the program, Deputy Finance Minister and Chief Treasurer Atom Janjughazyan stated at the National Assembly.

And the slight deviation from this program was caused primarily by the costs of auxiliary services provided to education. The education expenditures in 2011 grew by 8.5 percent as compared with 2010.

This spending was directed toward pre-school and general elementary education, and general secondary education programs. And the ratio of these expenditures to those of overall spending on education was 23.4 and 42.6 percent respectively.   

A total of 1,368 public education schools, with 365,500 students, functioned in Armenia in the year past, as compared with 369,600 students in 2010.

The average monthly salary of the school teachers was AMD 118,093 (approx. $290) and that of the administrative staff was AMD 176,222 (approx. $433