The Ministry of National Education says it expects the arrival of Ukrainian students to continue to increase in the coming days.
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A total of 5,266 Ukrainian students have already been welcomed into French schools, colleges and high schools since the start of the war in Ukraine, franceinfo learned on Tuesday March 29 from the Ministry of National Education. This is nearly seven times more than two weeks ago, when 787 Ukrainian children were counted on March 15 in French schools.
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The Ministry of National Education also expects these arrivals to continue to increase in the coming days, very quickly reaching the bar of 10,000 students. Different scenarios for caring for these children are being studied to accommodate more of them.
As of March 28, 3,301 Ukrainian students were enrolled in schools (62%), 1,508 in colleges (29%), 439 in high schools (8%), and 18 have another educational path (0.3%) , according to figures from the Ministry of National Education. The academies of Versailles (449), Nice (454), Grenoble (316), Lyon (295) and Créteil (289) are those which welcome the most Ukrainian pupils.