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Primary education. School units and pupils. By ownership of centre and sex. Counties and Aran

Primary education. School units and pupils. By ownership of centre and sex. Total. Counties, areas and provinces Catalonia
Students
Units Boys Girls Total
SY 2013/14 20,413 239,824 226,989 466,813
SY 2012/13 20,112 236,649 223,935 460,584
SY 2011/12 19,798 232,677 220,210 452,887
SY 2010/11 19,323 227,351 215,143 442,494
Source: Ministry of Education.
Note: Law 23/2010, of July 22, on the creation of the area of Penedès, divides Catalonia into eight territorial planning areas. This change implies that the data for the Metropolitan Area, Central Counties and Camp de Tarragona are not directly comparable with previous years.
Primary education. School units and pupils. By ownership of centre and sex. Public sector. Counties, areas and provinces Catalonia
Students
Units Boys Girls Total
SY 2013/14 14,174 161,229 150,850 312,079
SY 2012/13 13,936 158,798 148,254 307,052
SY 2011/12 13,663 155,396 145,506 300,902
SY 2010/11 13,225 150,504 141,137 291,641
Source: Ministry of Education.
Note: Law 23/2010, of July 22, on the creation of the area of Penedès, divides Catalonia into eight territorial planning areas. This change implies that the data for the Metropolitan Area, Central Counties and Camp de Tarragona are not directly comparable with previous years.
Primary education. School units and pupils. By ownership of centre and sex. Private sector. Counties, areas and provinces Catalonia
Students
Units Boys Girls Total
SY 2013/14 6,239 78,595 76,139 154,734
SY 2012/13 6,176 77,851 75,681 153,532
SY 2011/12 6,135 77,281 74,704 151,985
SY 2010/11 6,098 76,847 74,006 150,853
Source: Ministry of Education.
Note: Law 23/2010, of July 22, on the creation of the area of Penedès, divides Catalonia into eight territorial planning areas. This change implies that the data for the Metropolitan Area, Central Counties and Camp de Tarragona are not directly comparable with previous years.

Last update: July 20, 2015.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Primary education
Education that covers six years, from six years to twelve, and is compulsory. It is structured into three cycles, each of two academic years.

Methodological aspects

The data on infant, primary and secondary education is taken from an exploitation of the data provided by the Generalitat de Catalunya's Ministry of Education or teaching centres at all education levels. The public sector includes data for the centres that depend on the Ministry of Education and other public administrations, while the private sector deals with privately owned centres.

In 1990 the Law for general ordering of the education system (LOGSE) was passed, which modifies the previous education system (LGE) of 1970. In the 1991/92 academic year the teaching approved by the new law was gradually introduced and the 2000/01 academic year was the first in which none of the teaching relating to the previous education system was still in existence.

However, the two education models coexisted over the long period of experimentation and implantation of the new education law.

The data on centres and teaching staff is given, on the one hand, for infant and primary education as a whole, and on the other, for secondary education, although it is often the case that centres and teachers overlap in terms of the different levels given.

Data are provisional.