Editing Visp (section)

== Education ==
[[File:Dominique Gisin Altenmarkt-Zauchensee 2011.jpg|140px|thumb|Dominique Gisin, 2011]]
In Visp about 2,401 or (36.7%) of the population have completed non-mandatory [[Education in Switzerland#Secondary|upper secondary education]], and 715 or (10.9%) have completed additional higher education (either [[List of universities in Switzerland|university]] or a ''[[Fachhochschule]]'').  Of the 715 who completed tertiary schooling, 64.9% were Swiss men, 18.0% were Swiss women, 11.3% were non-Swiss men and 5.7% were non-Swiss women.<ref name=STAT2000 />

During the 2010–2011 school year there were a total of 910 students in the Visp school system.  The [[Education in Switzerland|education system]] in the Canton of Valais allows young children to attend one year of non-obligatory [[Kindergarten]].<ref>{{Cite report |url=http://edudoc.ch/record/35128/files/Schulsystem_alle.pdf |title=Kantonale Schulstrukturen in der Schweiz und im Fürstentum Liechtenstein / Structures Scolaires Cantonales en Suisse et Dans la Principauté du Liechtenstein |last=EDK/CDIP/IDES |access-date=24 June 2010 |year=2010}}</ref> During that school year, there 7 kindergarten classes (KG1 or KG2) and 140 kindergarten students.  The canton's school system requires students to attend six years of [[primary school]].  In Visp there were a total of 28 classes and 513 students in the primary school.  The [[secondary school]] program consists of three lower, obligatory years of schooling (orientation classes), followed by three to five years of optional, advanced schools.  There were 397 lower secondary students who attended school in Visp.<ref>[http://www.vs.ch/navig/navig.asp?MenuID=14519&RefMenuID=0&RefServiceID=0 Obligatorische Schulzeit] {{in lang|de}} Retrieved 24 August 2011</ref> All the upper secondary students attended school in another municipality.

{{as of|2000}}, there were 339 students in Visp who came from another municipality, while 250 residents attended schools outside the municipality.<ref name=commuter />

Visp is home to the ''Mediathek'' library.  The library has ({{as of|2008|lc=on}}) 12,438 books or other media, and loaned out 36,395 items in the same year.  It was open a total of 149 days with average of 12 hours per week during that year.<ref>[http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/16/02/02/data.html Swiss Federal Statistical Office, list of libraries] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150706231342/http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/16/02/02/data.html |date=6 July 2015 }} {{in lang|de}} Retrieved 14 May 2010</ref>