Within the 2023/2024 academic yr, a complete of 4,577 kindergartens function in 2,173 settlements, so youngsters in 69 p.c of the settlements have native entry to kindergarten training and care, wrote the KSH in its newest information launch on home training. Within the 2023/2024 academic yr, the variety of kindergarten locations was 388,000, the identical because the earlier yr. Because the flip of the millennium, the variety of locations has exceeded the variety of youngsters in kindergarten, on the nationwide stage, there are 83 kindergarteners per 100 locations. The shortage of locations will not be typical on the district stage, however on the identical time, the position of kids on the native, settlement stage can’t be solved in all places with out exceeding the variety of locations. Participation in early childhood training contributes considerably to the success of training and the acquisition of key competencies. A lot of the youngsters enrolled within the first grade went to kindergarten for 3 years, there have been only some hundred who had been socialized within the academic establishment for one yr.
Within the 2023/2024 academic yr, the variety of youngsters enrolled in kindergarten was practically 324,000, nearly 700 greater than the earlier yr. The share of six-year-old youngsters raised in kindergarten amongst kindergarten youngsters is identical because the earlier yr (16 p.c). 86-97 p.c of home 3-4-5-year-olds went to kindergarten, which is analogous to final years. 54 p.c of the six-year-olds had been in kindergarten through the faculty yr, which is a rise of some tenths of a share level in comparison with the 2022/23 faculty yr. Within the 2019/20 yr, 63.7 p.c of this age group had been in kindergarten.
The gender composition of kindergarten college students has not modified prior to now decade, within the 2023/2024 academic yr, boys are nonetheless within the majority with a share of 52 p.c.
In keeping with the brand new European Union goal, it should be achieved by 2030 that 96 p.c of kids from the age of three till they begin faculty obtain early childhood training. In Hungary in 2021, the participation price of 3-5 yr olds in early childhood training barely exceeded the EU common (92.5 p.c) (93.4 p.c).
Heves county district breakdown the Füzesabony district had the bottom utilization of locations, 70.6 p.c (this was additionally probably the most empty locations nationally, solely two districts had decrease capability utilization), and the very best within the Heves space, 92.7 p.c. The information for Heves ranked seventeenth nationally, there have been districts the place the capability utilization was over 100%. Within the areas of Pétervásara, Bélapátfalva, Eger, Gyöngyös and Hatvan, the occupancy ranged between 82-85 p.c.
