With all of the country’s pupils now having returned to their classrooms, RTL contacted the Ministry of Education for data on student nationalities and obtained the statistics for the 2023/24 school year.
Last year, 17,932 students (39.5%) attended what is commonly referred to in Luxembourgish as a ‘classical’ secondary school, meaning an institution that focuses on humanities and natural sciences. Around half of them, 8,917, have Luxembourgish nationality. Of the remaining students, 3,066 have dual nationality, including Luxembourgish, and 5,949 hold various foreign nationalities.
Summing up all the numbers, including both lower and upper classes, it turns out that 39.7% of the country’s 17,400 children attending a ‘general’ high-school, meaning those focusing more on crafts and tech, do not have Luxembourgish nationality. Out of these, 7,135 students are Luxembourgish while 3,355 have Luxembourgish nationality in addition to another nationality.
Of the 2,777 young people who completed vocational training last year, 2,230 have only Luxembourgish nationality, while 1,179 have Luxembourgish nationality in addition to another one.
3,866 students were enrolled in a pre-vocational school. 2,727 children do not have a Luxembourgish identity card, 814 students have a Luxembourgish passport, and 350 have both a Luxembourgish passport and an additional one.
In its diagram, the Ministry distinguishes between four categories:
In the article, we decided to combine categories ‘autre1' and ‘autre2' into a single category. So in total, there were 45,385 children enrolled during the 2023/2'24 academic year.
Our colleagues further enquired about homeschooling statistics. Currently, 59 children of secondary school age and 144 in primary education are being taught at home.
