School dropout rate increased again | Luxembourg word

The topic of school cancellation remains a major challenge for the Luxembourg education system. According to the report « Young school leavers and inactive young people in Luxembourg“The Ministry of Education rose by 0.6 percent after a decline by 0.5 percent in 2022/23 in 2022/23. The quota is again at the level of 2020/21 and 2021/22.

In the school year 2023/24, the school leaving quota was 8.2 percent (1,884 students), compared to 7.6 percent (1,716 students) in the previous year.

Luxembourg thus fulfills the EU target to keep the quota under nine percent by 2030 and is significantly below the average in the euro zone of 9.6 percent (2024). If you only look at the number of actual school leavers (without re -enrollment), the quota 2023/24 is 6.3 percent.

The risk groups

The majority of school dropouts are boys, even if the proportion of girls has risen slightly. In 2023/24, the girls made up 39.1 percent of school dropouts. In the previous year, the quota was 37 percent.

In 2023/24, most school dropouts had a gap of two school years (27.5 percent) – a tendency that was already observed in the years before.

In the upper classes (4E and 3E), the dropout rate 2023/24, as in the previous years, has increased again.

The desire to start a new school or professional project is one of the most common motives for a school termination. In vocational training, not finding a training company is also a common reason for demolition.

Vocational training to the DAP and the upper classes of the general secondary lesson are most affected by abortions. However, pupils from these courses also represent a large proportion of those who register again the following year (31.6 percent or 24.8 percent). So they are also motivated to resume school after a reorientation.