59,507 empty seats in 98 private schools: unused capacity worth $279.6 millionMXN a year
The median institution in this edition has 267 empty seats: 125 in primary schools, 216 in those high schools and 640 in universities. Adding up the 98 institutions with data: 59,507 seats.
In pesos, the median institution’s unused capacity is worth $795KMXN a year, and $279.6 millionMXN across all of them. It is infrastructure already paid for: the classroom exists, the teacher exists, the seat exists. The only thing missing is the student, and the student did ask.
Multiply your empty seats by your tuition by ten months. That is the size of your opportunity, and it is already built.
The table behind the chart
Empty seats (median by level)
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Primary schools | 125 |
| High schools | 216 |
| Universities | 640 |
| All institutions | 267 |
| Figure | What it is |
|---|---|
| 59,507 | empty seats across the 98 institutions with data |
| $795KMXN | a year: what the median institution’s unused capacity is worth |
Where it comes from
Empty seats = installed capacity − enrollment. Annual value = empty seats × tuition × months in the school year, per the Enrollment X-Ray model. Sample: 102 Enrollment X-Rays completed between March and October 2026 with owners and directors of 102 private institutions in 69 Mexican cities. These are institutions that requested the diagnostic, not the country. Median, not average: one school with 7,000 students skews the average and makes it lie.
Median before average; no figure based on fewer than 5 institutions is published. Full methodology.
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