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Chapter 3 · Private Education in Latin America: An Analysis

35% of households can afford private school. Only 10% enroll.

Mexico has more families who can afford private school than families who are paying for it. That gap is the growth ceiling for the entire sector.

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35% of households can afford private school. Only 10% enroll. Mexico has more families who can afford private school than families who are paying for it. That gap is the growth ceiling for the entire sector.
Source: Households and estimated monthly household income by level (MXN). AMAI 2024 NSE Rule across ~38 million households (ENIGH, INEGI). Healthy tuition ≈ 10% of household income per child
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13.4 million households can afford private school, yet only 10% of enrollment is private

AMAI’s NSE Rule, Mexico’s standard socioeconomic classification, sorts the country’s ~38 million households into seven socioeconomic levels. The top three are private school’s natural territory: A/B, 2.1 million households earning over $120,000MXN a month; C+, 5 million at ~$48,000MXN; C, 6.3 million at ~$28,000MXN. Combined: 13.4 million households, 35% of the country, able to sustain monthly tuition from $2,800MXN to over $12,000MXN.

And yet only 10% of national enrollment is in private school. Read that again: there are more families who can pay than families who are paying. Every family that crosses from public to private isn’t a student you took from the school across the street: it’s brand-new demand that didn’t exist for anyone.

“People just can’t afford it.” Are you sure? Or has no one given them a reason to pay you?

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13.4 million households · 35.4%

Level% of householdsHouseholdsApprox. monthly income
A/B5.6%2.1M~$120,000+MXN
C+13.1%5.0M~$48,000MXN
C16.7%6.3M~$28,000MXN
C−16.4%6.2M~$21,000MXN
D+17.6%6.7M~$15,000MXN
D22.4%8.5M~$10,500MXN
E8.2%3.1M—
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Households and estimated monthly household income by level (MXN). AMAI 2024 NSE Rule across ~38 million households (ENIGH, INEGI). Healthy tuition ≈ 10% of household income per child.

Document. P1-03 · Analysis of Private Education in Latin America (July 2026), by SuperLeads. Every figure keeps its official or international source; when the source gives a range, the range is shown here. Methodology.

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Peru: 10% can pay, 26% enroll.
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SEP doesn’t count schools. It counts RVOEs (official accreditations).
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Mexico City’s elite schools charge the same as Lima’s.
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