 The Junta of Castilla–La Mancha assumed responsibility for education in the autonomous community as of January 1, 2000, directly managing over 1,000 schools, with 22,000 teachers and 318,000 students.In the 2006–2007 school year, the region had 324,904 students below the university level, of whom 17.7 percent were in private schools.In that same year, the region had 1,037 schools and 30,172 schoolteachers; 15.2 percent of the schools were private.