Education
The basic statistics for the Karas Region for 2005/2006 were:
| School Type | Nr. of Schools | Learners | Teachers | |
| Government | Private | |||
| Primary | 35 | 11,539 | 313 | 77 |
| Junior Secondary | 3 | 652 | 26 | 1 |
| Combined | 5 | 2,805 | 83 | 18 |
| Secondary | 4 | 3,079 | 93 | 1 |
| Totals | 47 | 18,075 | 515 | 97 |
The total for secondary school learners attending private secondary schools was sixty eight (68) and that for primary school learners 1107. The pupil-teacher ratio 
for government schools was 31.35 while the overall ratio (including private schools) stood at 29.53. One government aided secondary school downgraded to a junior secondary school in the wake of 2005.
Eleven junior secondary schools entered 854 candidates for the 2005 grade ten examinations. Only 53.4% (456) managed to obtained sufficient gradings to enter grade eleven this year. 82.2 % of all the candidates managed to obtain grades between A and F with 11.5% obtaining G’s. Fifty-three learners (6.3%) did not make the grade. The Region was ranked 4th on the national scale.
Fifty-two (52) learners sat for the HIGCSE examinations with a total of 123 subject entries. Three hundred and thirty four (334) learners sat for the IGCSE examinations with a total of 2747 subject entries. The Region ranked 5th on the national scale in this examination.