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Of the 280 schools in Tasmania in 2002, the Greater Hobart-Southern Region had 46.4% (130) of all schools in Tasmania, the Northern Region 27.1% (76) and the Mersey-Lyell Region 26.4% (74).

In 2002, there were 174 primary schools in the state, 46.6% (81) in the Greater Hobart-Southern Region, 28.2% (49) in the Mersey-Lyell Region and 25.3% (44) in the Northern Region. Of the 50 secondary schools in Tasmania, 22 were located in the Greater Hobart-Sourthern Region, 15 in the Northern Region and 13 in the Mersey-Lyell Region.

There were 57 primary/secondary combined schools in the state, with 43.9% (25) located in the Greater Hobart-Southern Region, 21.1% (12) in the Northern Region and 17.5% (10) in the Mersey-Lyell Region. Of the 9 special schools in Tasmania, over half were located in the Northern Region and 3 were located in the Launceston local government area.

TOTAL SCHOOLS, Tasmanian local government areas - 2002(a)
		Primary	Secondary	Primary & secondary combined	Special	All schools
Local government area		no.	no.	no.	no.	no.
Greater Hobart-Southern
	Brighton	6	1	-	-	7
	Central Highlands	-	-	2	-	2
	Clarence	19	6	1	-	26
	Derwent Valley	6	1	1	-	8
	Glamorgan/Spring Bay	3	-	1	-	4
	Glenorchy	14	6	1	2	23
	Hobart	15	5	7	-	27
	Huon Valley	5	1	4	-	10
	Kingborough	8	2	4	-	14
	Sorell	2	-	1	-	3
	Southern Midlands	3	-	2	-	5
	Tasman	-	-	1	-	1
	Total	81	22	25	2	130
Northern
	Break O'Day	1	-	2	-	3
	Dorset	4	1	1	-	6
	Flinders	1	-	1	-	2
	George Town	1	-	2	-	3
	Launceston	22	10	3	3	38
	Meander Valley	7	1	-	2	10
	Northern Midlands	4	1	2	-	7
	West Tamar	4	2	1	-	7
	Total	44	15	12	5	76
Mersey-Lyell
	Burnie	10	4	-	1	15
	Central Coast	8	2	2	-	12
	Circular Head	6	1	1	-	8
	Devonport	8	4	-	1	13
	Kentish	2	-	1	-	3
	King Island	-	-	1	-	1
	Latrobe	5	1	1	-	7
	Waratah/Wynyard	6	1	2	-	9
	West Coast	4	-	2	-	6
	Total	49	13	10	2	74
Tasmania		174	50	57	9	280
(a) The non-government schools data includes head campus information only. Subsidiary campuses are not included. - nil or rounded to zero Source: Department of Education (government schools data); Department of Education, Science and Training (non-government schools data).