More than 18,000 Ukrainian children are currently enrolled in French schools, colleges and high schools, or about a fifth of the refugees who fled Ukraine to settle in France, authorities told AFP on Tuesday June 21.
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According to the latest figures from the Ministry of National Education, 18,611 pupils arriving from Ukraine since the conflict with Russia started on February 24 are accommodated in primary and secondary classes.
In detail, 10,777 children are enrolled in school, 5,930 in college and 1,904 in high school, according to data released Thursday by this ministry.
After a rapid increase in the number of children enrolled during the first three months following the start of the war in the French school system, open to all refugees, enrollment has stagnated for a month.
On May 24, three months after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, National Education counted 17,677 Ukrainian children in school, about a thousand less than today.
It was then the academies of Nice and Versailles which had the largest contingents.
The number of Ukrainians who have settled in France since the war continues to increase, indicated the head of the French Office for Immigration and Integration (Ofii), Didier Leschi, who pays displaced Ukrainians a subsistence allowance.
6.80 euros per day
On Friday, 92,000 Ukrainians benefited from this allowance for asylum seekers (Ada) in France, or “
250 more recipients every day on average
”, he underlined.
The allowance for asylum seekers, granted to Ukrainian refugees -- even if the latter do not need to apply for asylum because they benefit from the "
temporary protection
" granted by Europe -- amounts to 6.80 euros per day and for one person.
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The slowdown in enrollment of Ukrainian children in French establishments while arrivals on the territory are continuous (and concern 90% of women and children) can be explained by a movement of return to Ukraine of these families, for the moment difficult to quantify for the authorities, who do not have reliable statistics for the time being.
Thus, a “
good part
” of the refugee schoolchildren who have also enrolled in the Ukrainian school in Paris, backed by the Saint-Volodymyr-le-Grand cathedral, “
have already left
”, confided to AFP the director of the Nadia Myhal school, without however quantifying this trend exactly.