Paris will have at least 3,000 fewer first-degree students at the start of the school year than in 2021, a drop half as large as during the previous start of the school year, in the midst of a health crisis, the academy said on Monday.
The Paris academy plans “17 openings and 14 closings of classes despite an expected drop in the number of students of more than 3,000 between the start of the school year in September 2021 and September 2022”, she indicated in a press release.
“It is fortunately, for the moment, twice less than last year” when 6,000 fewer students had been identified, underlined to AFP Patrick Bloche, the education assistant at the Town Hall of Paris.
“We find a level of decline comparable to previous years.
"Despite the "very sharp drop in the school population", the academy emphasizes having "still made the choice to limit the number of class closures" thanks to "a ministerial endowment which does not provide for job withdrawals".
The completion of the duplication of large sections in priority education areas and the generalization of the ceiling of 24 students per class in large section, CP and CE1 have made it possible to "cushion the decline in school demography", underlined Patrick Bloche in March, at the time of choices on the Parisian school map.
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