Schools and institutes have had to manage 50,000 cases of students who change schools mid-year.

BarcelonaLast year, Catalan schools and secondary schools had to manage more than 50,000 cases of students who changed schools mid-year. This is evident from the data released this Tuesday by the Department of Education.

With this information, the Catalan government is beginning to shed light on the fact that shook the Catalan education system and dominated political debate almost six months ago: the more than 70,000 students enrolled in live classes that Education Minister Esther Niubó explained in a parliamentary committee that the Catalan school had received during the first months of the 2024-2025 school year.

Education sources detailed this Tuesday that "the flow" - not the number of students - of live enrolment in compulsory education (Early Childhood, Primary and Secondary Education) between September 15, 2024, and June 1, 2025, was 77,743. It should be remembered that a live enrolment is considered when a student arrives at a new school outside of the enrolment period or in the middle of the year.

From this flow, according to government data, it is concluded that there were more than 50,000 cases in which a student had to change schools or institutes in the middle of the year, with the reception work that this entails for the centres. Furthermore, Educació details that, within the current enrollment data, 27,254 students also entered the Catalan education system for the first time outside of the enrollment periods. These are students who are arriving at a Catalan school or secondary school for the first time, "either because they have arrived in Catalonia from another part of Spain, from another country, or because they were previously enrolled in a foreign private school, a school not authorized by the department, or an adult education school."

However, Educació clarifies that the current enrollment figure (77,743) is not equivalent to the number of students who have entered the Catalan education system for the first time or who have changed schools: "It must be taken into account that the same student can generate more than one flow throughout a school year," the ministry explains. That is, a student can make more than one change.

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