No. of high school students in Seoul continues to decline amid low birthrate

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A student holds a graduation cap during a graduation ceremony at Guui Middle School in Seoul, Jan. 8. The number of high school students in Seoul has dropped by nearly 4,000 over the past year amid Korea’s persistently low birthrate, officials said on Friday. Yonhap

A pupil holds a commencement cap throughout a commencement ceremony at Guui Center College in Seoul, Jan. 8. The quantity of highschool college students in Seoul has dropped by practically 4,000 over the previous yr amid Korea’s persistently low birthrate, officers stated on Friday. Yonhap

By Jung Min-ho

The quantity of highschool college students in Seoul has dropped by practically 4,000 over the previous yr amid Korea’s persistently low birthrate, officers stated Friday.

In response to the Seoul Metropolitan Workplace of Training, 45,846 college students are anticipated to enroll in 210 common excessive colleges within the metropolis in 2025, excluding those that will attend special-purpose establishments reminiscent of overseas language or vocational colleges.

Final yr, 49,826 college students attended common excessive colleges in Seoul. The inhabitants of this group has declined for the second consecutive yr, with no indicators of reversing within the close to future. In 2023, the determine was 53,761.

Because of this, the typical variety of college students per class can be 25.8, down from 26.5 in 2024. The variety of overcrowded colleges — outlined as these with 28 or extra college students per class — can be lowered to 23, down from the present 47.

Officers stated the nation’s low whole fertility fee of simply 0.74 has posed a problem to sustaining a secure variety of each college students and academics.

Incoming college students should get hold of the required enrollment paperwork from the training workplace or the center colleges they graduated from and submit them to their excessive colleges between Feb. 3 and 4.

 

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