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Specialist education. Centres, teachers and students. By ownership of centre

Specialist education. Centres, teachers and students. Total Catalonia. School year 2024/2025
Centres Teachers Students
Music (1) 268 5,550 70,854
Elementary level 235 3,785 65,654
Medium level 28 1,219 3,327
Higher level 5 546 1,873
Dance 54 357 7,684
Elementary level 51 251 7,211
Medium level 2 72 356
Higher level 1 34 117
Dramatic arts (2) 2 190 482
Plastic arts and design 34 1,338 5,670
Higher design studies (3) 3 0 2,100
Catering and conservation 1 26 123
Languages (4) 45 940 45,494
Sport 46 497 4,619
Source: Ministry of Education and Vocational Training.
Notes:
(1) Music schools, conservatories and higher schools.
(2) One centre on two sites: Terrassa and Barcelona.
(3) Combined plastic arts and design teaching staff.
(4) Official language schools. Includes face-to-face, distance and self-teaching students.
Specialist education. Centres, teachers and students. Public sector Catalonia. School year 2024/2025
Centres Teachers Students
Music (1) 184 3,607 54,862
Elementary level 164 2,661 52,006
Medium level 20 946 2,856
Higher level 0 0 0
Dance 12 168 2,188
Elementary level 9 62 1,715
Medium level 2 72 356
Higher level 1 34 117
Dramatic arts (2) 1 116 299
Plastic arts and design 27 908 5,396
Higher design studies (3) 1 0 885
Catering and conservation 1 26 123
Languages (4) 45 940 45,494
Sport 23 426 2,685
Source: Ministry of Education and Vocational Training.
Notes:
(1) Music schools, conservatories and higher schools.
(2) One centre on two sites: Terrassa and Barcelona.
(3) Combined plastic arts and design teaching staff.
(4) Official language schools. Includes face-to-face, distance and self-teaching students.
Specialist education. Centres, teachers and students. Private sector Catalonia. School year 2024/2025
Centres Teachers Students
Music (1) 84 1,943 15,992
Elementary level 71 1,124 13,648
Medium level 8 273 471
Higher level 5 546 1,873
Dance 42 189 5,496
Elementary level 42 189 5,496
Medium level 0 0 0
Higher level 0 0 0
Dramatic arts 1 74 183
Plastic arts and design 7 430 274
Higher design studies (2) 2 0 1,215
Catering and conservation 0 0 0
Languages 0 0 0
Sport 23 71 1,934
Source: Ministry of Education and Vocational Training.
Notes:
(1) Music schools, conservatories and higher schools.
(2) Combined plastic arts and design teaching staff.

Last update: September 16, 2026.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Special regime education
Education that is not integrated in the levels, stages or cycles of the general regime. They have their own structure and levels, and can be anything from elementary education or equivalent studies to diplomas or degrees. They can be studied at the same time as the general regime or special regime.

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.

The centres have been counted as many times as the number of teachings they provide.

Data are provisional.