Education
In Nuglar-St. Pantaleon about 554 or (42.2%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 166 or (12.6%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 166 who completed tertiary schooling, 63.9% were Swiss men, 21.1% were Swiss women, 8.4% were non-Swiss men and 6.6% were non-Swiss women.
During the 2010-2011 school year there were a total of 127 students in the Nuglar-St. Pantaleon school system. The education system in the Canton of Solothurn allows young children to attend two years of non-obligatory Kindergarten. During that school year, there were 29 children in kindergarten. The canton's school system requires students to attend six years of primary school, with some of the children attending smaller, specialized classes. In the municipality there were 98 students in primary school. The secondary school program consists of three lower, obligatory years of schooling, followed by three to five years of optional, advanced schools. All the lower secondary students from Nuglar-St. Pantaleon attend their school in a neighboring municipality.
As of 2000, there were 93 students from Nuglar-St. Pantaleon who attended schools outside the municipality.
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