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Lleida's Maria Rúbies Institute Loses an ESO Line Due to Insufficient Demand

Education withdraws one of the four first-year ESO groups due to a lack of pre-enrollments, despite family mobilization last year.

Generic image of a public school building in Lleida.
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Generic image of a public school building in Lleida.

The Maria Rúbies institute in Lleida will lose a first-year ESO line next academic year after student demand proved insufficient to maintain the four lines offered.

The Education department has informed the institute's management of the decision to eliminate one of the first-year ESO groups for the upcoming term. This measure is being implemented because pre-enrollments did not reach the necessary number to cover the initially planned four lines, with demand totaling around 80 students.
Department sources explained that the reduction is solely due to insufficient enrollment, not an imposed closure decision. This contrasts with the situation last year, when a mobilization by families from the Parc de l’Aigua school managed to reverse a similar decision at the last minute.
The Maria Rúbies institute receives unique adscription from the public schools Enric Farreny and Joan Maragall, while the Parc de l’Aigua school shares adscription with the Joan Oró institute. This year, the students from the affiliated schools were not enough to guarantee the continuation of the fourth line.
In Balaguer, the Education department has also confirmed the closure of one of the two I3 lines at the Gaspar de Portolà school, despite protests from the educational community. This decision will leave the capital of Noguera with only one I3 group per public school, a measure that, according to the department, aims to prevent school segregation.

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