Overview
- The regional government reported on Tuesday that total enrolment for 2026/27 will be about 298,346 students, 4,617 fewer than last year, reflecting a decade-long decline of roughly 22,500 pupils.
- About one in three places offered for 3-year-old children remain unfilled across Galician schools, leaving large unused capacity in early childhood education.
- Four small public centres will not open this September: CEIP Pazos-Comoxo (Boiro), EEI Olas (Mesía), EEI Taboadela (Ourense) and EEI Lantaño (Portas).
- The Consellería rejected requests to modify or add public funding (conciertos) for 52 private centres this year, with 27 in Pontevedra province and 16 in Vigo, producing a net loss of three concerted Infant/Primary units for 2026/27.
- The Xunta frames the changes as an adaptation to 'effective needs' and is reallocating resources by hiring around 900 extra secondary teachers, lowering class ratios, expanding some vocational cycles (about 57,000 FP students provisionally) and creating a new concerted autism unit at Aceesca, while the cuts risk reducing local school access in the smallest communities.