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The new school year starts with fewer students than the previous year.

There are

divided between

,

,

,

and

, which began classes this week without restrictions due to the pandemic.

They are 1,176 less, according to data from the Ministry of Education.

The loss of students has not been the same at all stages.

Infant and Primary registered their lowest figures in the last

, respectively, due to the continuous

In other school stages the data has been positive, such as in ESO, where the number of students enrolled has been the

in the historical series that began to be counted in 1990. In total, there are 2,058,896 young people between 13 and 17 years old who are in high school.

There are

more than those who signed up for the previous course.

Vocational training is also experiencing a great

among its enrolled students, which has registered an upward trend since the 2014-15 academic year, the first for which there is data.

Since then, this modality has gained a million students.

A trend that, according to Ministry sources, seems to be consolidated over the next few years.

The decline occurs among the youngest students, those between the ages of zero and six.

Infant is the course that receives fewer students each year.

The experts consulted by this newspaper point to the

as the main and only reason for this loss of students.

The new course has 1,584,094 children, about 39,000 less than last year and the lowest figure in the last 15 years, when there were 1,643,016 in Infant.

It is the reflection of a country in which fewer and fewer children are born.

According to

, the number of births between January and June 2022 was 159,705, which is the lowest figure since

.

Consuelo León

, director of the Observatory of Family Policies and head of the Equality Unit (UIC), assures that the fact that there are fewer and fewer children will bring about a transformation of the school as we know it today.

«The positive part», she indicates, «will be that with fewer students, the training will be more personalized and, therefore, of higher quality».

One of the problems that education has today is the

.

In total, the average number of students per teacher during the past year was 11 students per teacher, being in some communities such as

and

12.2 and 12.3 students per teacher.

Until now, the problem was evident among the youngest, however, for a decade, the demographic crisis has also been seen among Primary school students.

Despite the fact that during the 2015-16 academic year there was a rebound in students in each of the six courses that comprise Primary education, the current year registered the lowest figure in the last 10 years, with 2,759,602.

"It is logical that fewer and fewer students will be noticed in each of the training stages," says the researcher.

The push of private

The decrease in enrolled students also depends on the type of centre.

According to ministry statistics, private and concerted schools have experienced an increase in their enrollment rates to

of students enrolled in the 2022-23 academic year, the highest percentage

.

education

, on the other hand, has lost ground in the last

and stands at 67% of enrollments, although it is in the Secondary stage that it is the only one where it remains strong to the detriment of private education.

On the other hand, Baccalaureate and Primary have better rates of students in private and concerted schools than public ones.

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