78.5% of families choose Catalan as their first language of instruction and 16% prefer Spanish.
To comply with article 135 of Law 1/2022 of 8 March on education in the Balearic Islands (LEIB), the Regional Ministry of Education and Universities has guaranteed that for the next school year 2024/2025, families will be able to choose the language of first education for their children.
Thus, when registering all pupils who will attend the 4th year of nursery school in any publicly funded centre in the Balearic Islands next academic year, families could choose between the two official languages of the Balearic Islands.
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Families in the Balearic Islands exercise for the first time their right to choose their first language of education
Thus, of the total number of enrolments registered to date in the Balearic Islands, 6,692 (78.5 %) have chosen to receive the first language of instruction in Catalan, 1,365 (16 %) in Spanish, and 467 (5.5 %) families have not reported. There are still 101 registrations to be executed. It should be remembered that enrolment is a live process and that as the year and the academic year progress, it undergoes modifications.
DATA BY ISLANDS
By islands, in Mallorca, a total of 5,388 families (79.7%) have chosen Catalan as their first language, 1,065 (15.7%) have chosen Spanish and 311 (4.6%) have not reported. As of today, 83 registrations are still pending.
On the islands of Eivissa and Formentera, 15 enrolments are still pending. A total of 264 (23.5 %) families have chosen Spanish as their children’s first language of instruction, 732 (65.2 %) have chosen Catalan and 127 (11.3 %) have not reported.
As for Menorca, 572 (89.8 %) enrolments have been made choosing Catalan, 36 (5.7 %) have chosen Spanish and 29 (4.6 %) have not reported. Three registrations are still pending. The pending enrolments are expected to materialise in the coming weeks.
In the same way, the schools that have, as of today, uninformed enrolments will introduce the information in the coming weeks, or failing that, at the beginning of September before the start of the school year.