More than 6,800 Ukrainian children are currently educated in schools, colleges and high schools in France.
More than 6,800 Ukrainian children are currently enrolled in schools, colleges and high schools in France, mainly in the academies of Nice and Versailles, the Ministry of National Education announced in a press release on Friday.
According to the latest figures from the “Ukrainian cell” located rue de Grenelle and which works every day to anticipate the reception of Ukrainian children in the classes of France, 6,873 pupils arriving from Ukraine are currently welcomed in the first and second classes. degree.
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Maybe 10,000 next week
These figures, stopped at Thursday 4:00 p.m., are increasing rapidly since Monday evening, there were 5,266 Ukrainian students attending school in France, a figure which had already been “multiplied by 20 since March 8”. The academies that welcome the largest number of Ukrainian students are those of Nice, Versailles, Grenoble and Lyon. In the very short term, perhaps as early as next week, there could be 10,000 schoolchildren, according to the ministry, which emphasizes “still having reception capacity”, he explained to the press on Tuesday.