The number of students from preschool to 12th grade decreased slightly in the 2024/2025 school year, reversing a three-year growth trend. Over the last decade, student numbers have fallen by 3.1%, while the number of teachers has dropped by 6.7%.
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Two new parliamentary inquiry commissions will be installed on October 14: one to investigate the national exams (at 11:30) and another to investigate Luís Neves (at 12:00). The exams inquiry follows widespread criticism regarding the transition to a fully digital grading system, which faced technical and logistical issues this year.
Out of over 100,000 scholarship applications, only 1,700 first-year students have been granted automatic support. Approximately 35,000 applications remain pending due to missing information that students must provide for the process to continue.
Classes at the Tenente-Coronel Adão Carrapatoso Secondary School were suspended this Wednesday, October 7, for students from 5th to 12th grade due to heavy rain on Tuesday causing flooding in the temporary container classrooms. Municipal services and emergency responders are currently cleaning the facilities, with the mayor expecting classes to resume normally on Thursday, October 8.