There Are Two Million Students in Portugal: Results Are Better in the North and Center, Where Fewer Teachers Are Missing
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Immigrant population helped to reverse the decline of children in the education system and the number of enrollees in teacher training courses is increasing.
Secondary education has strong territorial differences, with Algarve, Lisbon and Setúbal recording the lowest results.
With regard to teacher training, one of the biggest shortages in the country, the volume of new graduates (two thousand per year) is lower than the number of teachers leaving by retirement (three thousand per year).
The rate of completion of secondary education is lower in Lisbon, Setúbal and Algarve, in a context where there are fewer students in the lowest grades and more students in higher education, particularly foreigners, according to a Pordata report.
In the school year 2024/2025, the most recent annual official data, "there were 2,078,116 students enrolled in the Portuguese education system, more 9,326 than in the previous school year".
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