Abdullah-afify/egyptian-high-school-students-grades

Egyptian High School (Thanawya Amma) Students Degrees (2017–2026)

A Large-Scale National Demographic and Educational Dataset of 3,790,225 Student Records

Published and maintained by Afify Corporation (afify.co) and Abdullah Afify.

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Dataset Summary

This dataset compiles official national examination results for Egyptian General Secondary Education (Thanawya Amma / الثانوية العامة) across five major cohorts: 2017, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026, comprising 3,790,225 student records.

It serves as a primary empirical benchmark for:

• Arabic Onomastics & NLP: Full authentic personal naming patterns and patronymic chains across Egyptian governorates.
• Educational & Statistical Analytics: National grade distribution modeling, pass/fail trends, and cohort demographic shifts.

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Dataset Splits & Statistics

Academic Year	Configuration Name	Record Count	Description
All Years (Combined)	default / all_years	3,790,225	Complete unified dataset
2017 Academic Year	year_2017	540,110	Historical graduation cohort
2023 Academic Year	year_2023	784,749	Pre-reform examination cohort
2024 Academic Year	year_2024	734,990	Recent graduation cohort
2025 Academic Year	year_2025	810,980	Modern examination cohort
2026 Academic Year	year_2026	919,396	Latest examination cohort

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How to Use with datasets

from datasets import load_dataset

# 1. Load the complete 5-cohort unified dataset (3.79M rows)
dataset = load_dataset("Abdullah-afify/egyptian-high-school-students-grades")
print(dataset["train"][0])

# 2. Load a specific academic cohort (e.g. 2026 results)
cohort_2026 = load_dataset("Abdullah-afify/egyptian-high-school-students-grades", "year_2026")
print(f"Total 2026 students: {len(cohort_2026['train']):,}")

Direct Pandas / PyArrow Loading:

import pandas as pd

# Load all years
df = pd.read_parquet("data/high_school_degrees_all_years.parquet")
print(df.head())

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Data Schema & Field Dictionary

Field	Type	Description	Arabic Name	Example
seating_no	int64	Official examination seat number	رقم الجلوس	1029481
name	string	Full student quad/quint name	اسم الطالب رباعي/خماسي	محمد أحمد علي حسن الشرقاوي
school	string	School name	اسم المدرسة	مدرسة السعيدية الثانوية العسكرية بنين
stage	string	Educational stage	المرحلة الدراسية	الثانوية العامة
status	string	Examination status	حالة الطالب	ناجح (Passed) / دور ثان (Retake)
section	string	Academic track / division	الشعبة	علمي علوم / علمي رياضة / أدبي
total_score	float64	Total examination score obtained	المجموع الكلي	385.5
percentage	float64	Overall percentage score	النسبة المئوية	94.02
year	int64	Examination academic year	سنة الامتحان	2026

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Research Citations & Licensing

This dataset is released under the MIT License and is free for academic, commercial, and research use.

@dataset{afify2026egyptian_grades,
  author       = {Abdullah Afify},
  title        = {Egyptian High School Students Grades & Degrees (2017–2026)},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/Abdullah-afify/egyptian-high-school-students-grades}}
}