In the 2022/23 school year, a total of a good 315,000 schoolchildren and students attended a public or private educational institution in the Canton of Zurich: that is almost 2,000 more than in the previous year and 12 percent more than 10 years ago. This number does not include students at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ), which is funded by the federal government.
An important indicator is the annual increase in the number of children at primary level. The growth from the 2021/2022 school year to the 2022/2023 school year was 1.5 percent or 1,969 students. This corresponds to around 100 additional school classes. The average class size in primary school is 20.6 children, and the number has remained stable over the past ten years. The proportion of children and young people who attend a private school during compulsory schooling has also been stable for years at 6.5 percent.
In the first year after compulsory schooling, almost 70 percent of the young people attended a vocational school and almost 10 percent attended a one-year bridging program. The proportion of students in grammar schools, commercial schools, computer science schools and technical schools was around 20 percent.
Over 25,000 students were enrolled at a university of applied sciences. More than 5000 of them chose a course of study for training for a teaching profession, be it at the teacher training college or the college for curative education. Around 28,000 people study at the University of Zurich.
The pocket statistics are available in PDF format on the Education Statistics website. The brochure can be obtained in paper format from the Secretariat of Education Statistics, Directorate of Education (phone 043 259 53 78, email bista@bi.zh.ch).
2023-07-11 07:35:51
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