More than 88,400 preschool students open the school year in Andalusia this Monday

In total, 88,459 children under three years old will start this Monday, September 2, the School year 2024/2025 in schools and preschool education centers in Andalusia, according to registration data recorded this Friday, August 30, by the Ministry of Educational Development and Vocational Training.

Given that the registration procedure for the first cycle of preschool remains open throughout the curriculum, the Ministry once again predicts an upward trend in school enrolment, with an estimate of exceed the figure of 105,000 girls and boys in the community network of nursery schoolsLast year, Andalusia already recorded a historic record for school enrolment with 103,820 children under three years old enrolled in school.

The network of Andalusian centers that teach the first cycle of the infant It is made up of 2,200 centres, among which are the nursery schools belonging to the Government of Andalusia and the public or private centres adhering to the Commission’s programme to promote schooling in the first cycle of preschool education. There are 10 more than the previous year. The Ministry has offered a total of 124,660 places for children under three years of age for this course.

Early childhood education is considered in Andalusia as an educational stage and not only as a health stage of voluntary education organized in two cycles of three courses each. In order to facilitate as much as possible the compatibility between professional and family life, the centers that teach the first cycle of early childhood education offer their students service Monday to Friday every non-holiday day of the yearexcept for the month of August, uninterrupted hours from 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and, if they offer the games workshop service, until 8:00 p.m.