Most candidates recognize themselves as brown

Women are the majority among those enrolled in the 2024 National High School Examination (Enem), which corresponds to 60.59%, while men represent 39.41%. The data appears in the Enem 2024 Panel released by the Ministry of Education (MEC) and the National Institute of Educational Studies and Research Anísio Teixeira (Inep).

The online platform allows access to the general numbers of the 4,325,960 confirmed registrants in this edition of the exam. The main information can also be filtered by region, by federation unit and by municipality.

MEC publishes Enem 2024 test locations. In the material, the participant can consult data on those enrolled regarding age group, sex, race/color, types of registrations, their situation in relation to secondary education, among other data.

According to data from the new tool regarding the race and/or color of the candidates – declared at the time of registration – the majority recognize themselves as brown (1,860,766), followed by whites (1,788,622) and blacks (533,861).

Another 62,288 candidates consider themselves yellow and 29,891 declared themselves indigenous.

More than 51 thousand participants made an ethnic-racial self-declaration.

Regarding age group, the majority (35.6%) are 16 years of age or younger, equivalent to 1.54 million. Next come candidates aged 17 (21.7%), with 938.5 thousand people. In third place is the group aged between 21 and 30 (14.8%), which corresponds to 639.8 thousand candidates.

Participants aged 18 account for 9.8% (425 thousand registered). People aged 31 to 59 are 8.1%. Those aged 19 represent 5.7%. The 20-year-old group accounts for 3.9% of the total. This year’s edition has 9,950 registrants over the age of 60 (0.2% of the total).

Of the total of 4,325,960 enrolled in Enem 2024, 1.6 million are high school graduates. 841,546 (19.4%) students are enrolled in their second or second year and 24,723 (0.6%) do not attend or have completed high school, but will take the Enem to test their knowledge, known as treineiros.

Inep explains that this data is self-declaratory and the percentages were estimated based on the 2023 School Census.

Of the 5,074,791 registrations, 4,325,960 were confirmed, which represents an increase of 9.95% compared to 2023 participants.

Of the total confirmed registrations, 63.6% are exempt from the registration fee and 36.4% paid the amount of R$85.

Students who were entitled to exemption from the Enem 2024 fee are those enrolled in the final year of high school in a public school; one who receives a full scholarship at a private school; those who fall into a situation of socioeconomic vulnerability and are registered in the Single Registry for Social Programs (CadÚnico) and, also, those who participate in the Pé-de-Meia program, from the Ministry of Education.

Inep approved 65,758 requests for specialized assistance. People with attention deficit constitute the profile with the highest number of requests (29,955), followed by those registered with low vision (8,622).

During the administration of the tests, on the 3rd and 10th of November, 115,501 accessibility resources will also be made available.

Additional time was the most required resource (42,929). Next are differentiated correction (20,201); reading aid (16,348) and transcription aid (11,063).

Among the requests for specialized care accepted, there are 822 requests for treatment by social name. The right is guaranteed to people who identify with a gender identity different from that attributed to them by their civil name.

Established in 1998, the National High School Examination assesses the academic performance of students at the end of high school.

Participants who have not yet completed high school can participate as trainers and the results obtained in the exam are only used for self-assessment of knowledge.

Enem grades can be used in selection processes coordinated by the Ministry of Education (MEC), such as the Unified Selection System (Sisu), the University for All Program (ProUni) and the Higher Education Student Financing Fund (Fies) of the federal government.

Performance on the Enem is also considered for admission to higher education institutions in Portugal that have an agreement with Inep. The agreements guarantee easy access to grades for Brazilian students interested in pursuing higher education in that country.