Valérie Pécresse announces 2,100 additional places in high schools in the Paris region

High schools in the Paris region will be able to accommodate more students. The president of the Île-de-France region, Valérie Pécresse, announced on Thursday, August 29, the opening of 2,100 new places in these secondary schools for the 2024 school year. These new places meet the region’s commitment to offer 30,000 additional places in high schools by 2028, Valérie Pécresse stressed, recalling that 14,000 had already been delivered, that 12,000 were “under construction”and that 4,000 remained to be launched.

The new international high school in Vincennes, the 8th international high school in the region and the first in Val-de-Marne, will accommodate 1,050 places at the start of the 2024 school year. The rest of the new places are distributed among three other high schools thanks to extension work.

In 2023, the Ile-de-France region had 535,244 high school students, and the region’s total budget for high schools amounts to 1.8 billion euros in 2024.

Valérie Pécresse also announced a 6.24% increase in the remuneration of the 9,000 category C staff in high schools, which will run until 2028. In addition, the region will “refund 100 euros on the imagine R pass for high school students” Ile-de-France residents, which costs 382.40 euros per year. A measure intended for high school students who “do not benefit from departmental aid”Reimbursements will take place from mid-November.