In the last school year, 1,202 children of compulsory education age were not enrolled in Latvian education institutions, according to the public report of the State Education Quality Service (IKVD) for 2023.
This is 679 fewer children than in the school year 2022/2023, when there were 1,881 pupils of compulsory education age in no Latvian educational institutions.
For most of the children aged five to 18 – 1,035 in total – municipalities have no information or it has not been entered into the system.
96 children will start primary education in the next school year, the municipalities know. 27 children are receiving pre-school education in the family, while 11 children have been taken off kindergarten lists for non-attendance.
Although parents’ awareness of the need for a disabled child to receive education in line with his/her abilities and health condition is growing, ten disabled children and ten children with long-term illnesses are still not registered in educational institutions, the report says.
In 2023, 11,887 Latvian pupils were living and studying abroad.
Source: BNS
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