Registrations closed for the school year 2021-2022, the rectorate of Paris notes an unprecedented drop in the number of its students: 6,000 schoolchildren are missing compared to the previous year, indicates France Info.
That is to say a 5% drop in registrations in the capital.
This decrease is due in particular to the health crisis and successive confinements, where many families have chosen to leave the capital to settle in the provinces.
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Whatever the district, all Parisian districts are concerned, according to the rectorate.
The most affected are among the most central: the 9th, 10th and 11th arrondissements.
In some schools, the fall is "
quite huge
", testifies the director of a school in the 20th arrondissement to France Info.
Against 140 students last year, it now has 115, after the departure of several families for the suburbs or the countryside.
The manager fears the consequences: "
It will probably be necessary to consider closing classes,
" she laments.
Some schools have already had to make this choice at the start of the school year.
In all, 63 classes closed in Paris, although at the same time, 43 others also opened.
For ten years, the city of Paris has lost an average of 2,500 schoolchildren per year.
In September 2020, six months after the start of the pandemic, 3,700 schoolchildren had already missed the call compared to the previous start of the school year.
