The Government Delegate, Sabrina Moh, has attended the CEIP ‘Hippodrome’ for the official inauguration of the academic year 2025-2026, accompanied by the Provincial Director of the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports (MEFPyD), Elena Fernández Treviño, the Director of the center, Juan José Montañés, and part of the team of both the Provincial Directorate and the CEIP.
Sabrina Moh thanked the reception and congratulated once again the entire educational community, teachers, non-teaching staff, parents, and all the students. In this way, he wanted a good development of the academic year “which, as always, is full of challenges”.
Seven years of progress
In this beginning of the school year, the highest representative of the Government of Spain in our city has valued the work done since 2018 “in order to continue improving the educational quality of the city”. “It is already seven years since we began to manage Education, and in these seven years we have been able to reverse many of the situations we have been suffering, such as the high ratio that Melilla had,” he said.
Currently, the ratio is around 22 students in Infant and Primary, when in 2018 some classrooms exceeded 30 students. This reduction, he said, “is due to a great job and a great effort that today I want to put in value, taking out the greatest offers of public employment, equipping the centers with a significant number of personnel, but also putting in place new infrastructures to be able to lower this ratio”.
About 2,000 teachers
The Provincial Director of Education has encrypted the city’s educational community into about 23,000 students, including those in Vocational Training, and about 2,000 teachers. This figure, he explained, will increase with specific programs, such as Territorial Cooperation for the reinforcement of Language and Mathematics, in addition to the almost 500 teachers who have joined after the first vacancy awards.
Fernández Treviño has highlighted the commitment to “unprecedented” stabilization in the city of Melilla. “In the last selective process, the number of places was raised as it had not been done in the fork of the last eight years,” he said. All this together with the stabilization process by which many teachers have consolidated their places and are carrying out their work in our city.
For the Government Delegate, this effort is reflected directly in the classroom. “Having fewer students per classroom means that we can have more individualized attention, more specialized attention and, therefore, also the rate of school failure in the city.” Therefore, he has made it clear that “this will continue to be one of the lines of work: more resources, better educational quality”.
Figures for the new school year
The head of the Provincial Directorate of Education has offered the global data with which the new course begins, which in total brings together about 23,000 students. These are distributed in: 2,600 in the second cycle of Infant, 7,100 in Primary, 5,600 in Secondary, 1,600 in Baccalaureate and 3,000 in Vocational Training. In addition, 900 students per semester at the Adult Education Center and about 290 at the Official School of Languages and the Conservatory.
More open classrooms
The Provincial Director wanted to highlight the increase in the attention given to students with diversity. “This year we added three more open classrooms to the thirteen that we had. We have thirteen classrooms open, five of them are TEA, and the rest serve students with diversity.”
Fernández Treviño has highlighted the difference with other communities such as Andalucía, where “under the mandate of Juanma Moreno they have been cutting that attention to diversity”.
Faced with this, Melilla caters for diversity and increases the number of open classrooms. Specifically, in this course three new open classrooms are incorporated, specifically in the CEIP Encarna León, the IES Enrique Nieto and the IES Miguel Fernández.