In primary education, class size continues to decrease in the school year 2020 / Franck Evain

Publication de la DEPP / Note d'information MEN

EVAIN, Franck. Auteur | France. Ministère de l'éducation nationale, de la jeunesse et des sports (MENJS). Direction de l'évaluation, de la prospective et de la performance (DEPP). Bureau B3 - Etudes sur les établissements et l'éducation prioritaire

Edité par Ministère de l'Education nationale, de la jeunesse et des sports. Paris - 2021

At the start of the 2020 school year, the size of primary school classes continues to decrease, whether in public or government-dependent private schools, and whether in pre-primary or primary classes. This trend has been particularly marked since 2017 in public schools, following the implementation of the class size reduction policy in priority education. These measures, which first concerned the first and second grades, and since September 2020 the last grade of pre-primary sections, have not taken away resources from the other levels. Nor have they been achieved at the expense of rural or urban schools outside priority education, whose class sizes are also decreasing.