Back-to-school for students island wide

Thursday sees the start of the school year with 46,479 secondary school students returning to gymnasium and lyceum classrooms island wide.

President Nikos Christodoulides, accompanied the Minister of Education Athena Michaelidou, visited the Acropolis gymnasium to wish the students a good year.

Afterwards, the minister will visit the lyceum of Agios Antonios in Limassol.

During the new school year, a total of 113 general secondary schools will operate, of which 62 gymnasiums, 36 lyceums and 10 six-form schools with a complete middle and high school cycle, according to data from the ministry of education relayed to the Cyprus News Agency.

Also, five evening gymnasium-lyceums will operate, for which registrations will be completed in mid-September.

It is expected that a total of 41,605 students will attend for 2023-2024, of which 24,160 will study in lyceums and 17,445 in gymnasiums staffed with 6,650 teachers.

Sixteen technical and mixed schools will also operate attended by 4,874 students and staffed with 684 teachers.

Younger students will return to their desks on Monday in 612 schools, of which 329 are primary, 274 kindergarten, and nine special education schools.

The schools are staffed with 7,078 educators, of which 4,948 primary teachers, 973 kindergarten teachers, and 1,157 special teachers assigned within all schools.

The total number of elementary students is 64,748, of which 51,371 are in primary schools, 12,853 in kindergarten and 524 in special schools.

According to the ministry’s data 9,323 students will enter school this year compared with 9,068 last year.