Education
In Dully about 124 or (30.0%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 142 or (34.3%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 142 who completed tertiary schooling, 37.3% were Swiss men, 19.0% were Swiss women, 25.4% were non-Swiss men and 18.3% were non-Swiss women.
In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 50 students in the Dully school district. In the Vaud cantonal school system, two years of non-obligatory pre-school are provided by the political districts. During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 1,249 children of which 563 children (45.1%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 31 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 19 students in those schools.
As of 2000, there were 11 students in Dully who came from another municipality, while 68 residents attended schools outside the municipality.
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