Education
In 2009 the city of Rio Branco had 211 elementary schools, with 64,349 students and 2,367 teachers. The Index of Basic Education Development for elementary schools was 4.9, ranked 10th among Brazilian capitals, and above the national average of 4.6. There are an estimated 70 kindergarten preschools with 402 teachers and 10,168 students.
Higher education institutions include the Federal University of Acre, the Northern Educational Union, the College of the Western Amazonia, and the Community College of Acre, among others. These absorb the bulk of registrations, especially the Federal University of Acre, as the only public college in the state.
In 2008, the illiteracy rate in the state was 13 per cent, with 36.2 per cent of the population functionally illiterate.
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—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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