The school dropout rate in Spain drops to 13.2% in the first three quarters of 2024, but it is the second highest figure in the European Union, only behind Romania (16.6%), according to data from Funcas a from the INE active population survey.
Although the Spanish percentage has registered a slight improvement compared to 13.7% in 2023 and 13.9% in 2022, progress “has been slow” in recent years and the figure is still far from the established European Union objective at 9% by 2030.
In this sense, the director of Funcas’ Education area has warned that early educational abandonment “continues to be one of the biggest challenges for the educational system in Spain, due to its individual impact on the life trajectories of young people and also due to its implications for the economic, social and cultural development of the country.
This was stated this Wednesday by the expert during the presentation of the documentary ‘Exit, school abandonment’, produced by Funcas and made by Deer Watson Films, which analyzes, with expert voices, one of the greatest challenges for the educational system in Spain.
Sanz has shown that the school dropout rate in Spain “is fourteen times higher when your mother has only primary school than if she has higher education.” “The educational level of the parents or the socioeconomic context of the family has a lot of influence,” he said.
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