the task of managing the infrastructure is particularly hard as the capacity of the school board as well as the ability to fundraise from the local community is often lower in rural areas while many school buildings are in very poor condition as most of them were built between the s and s the hundred primary schools with the lowest performance in the country as measured by grade repetition and dropout levels have less than students and are mostly located in rural areas outside of the capital area pen there are also indications that students from small primary schools are less likely to make the transition to secondary school