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Specialist education. Centres, teachers and students. By ownership of centre

Specialist education. Centres, teachers and students. Total Catalonia. School year 2023/2024
Centres Teachers Students
Music (1) 280 5,681 72,020
Elementary level 246 3,991 66,654
Medium level 29 1,150 3,532
Higher level 5 540 1,834
Dance 60 440 8,475
Elementary level 57 316 7,999
Medium level 2 77 367
Higher level 1 47 109
Dramatic arts (2) 2 199 467
Plastic arts and design 33 1,245 5,704
Higher design studies (3) 3 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 1,976
Catering and conservation 1 26 114
Languages (4) 45 927 44,711
Sport 47 544 5,243
Source: Departament d'Educació i Formació Professional
Notes:
(1) Music schools, conservatories and higher schools.
(2) One centre on two sites: Terrassa and Barcelona.
(3) Combined plastic arts and design teaching staff.
(4) Official language schools. Includes face-to-face, distance and self-teaching students.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.
Specialist education. Centres, teachers and students. Public sector Catalonia. School year 2023/2024
Centres Teachers Students
Music (1) 189 3,629 54,174
Elementary level 169 2,732 51,188
Medium level 20 897 2,986
Higher level 0 0 0
Dance 13 193 2,208
Elementary level 10 69 1,732
Medium level 2 77 367
Higher level 1 47 109
Dramatic arts (2) 1 126 289
Plastic arts and design 27 875 5,424
Higher design studies (3) 1 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 881
Catering and conservation 1 26 114
Languages (4) 45 927 44,711
Sport 26 458 2,830
Source: Departament d'Educació i Formació Professional
Notes:
(1) Music schools, conservatories and higher schools.
(2) One centre on two sites: Terrassa and Barcelona.
(3) Combined plastic arts and design teaching staff.
(4) Official language schools. Includes face-to-face, distance and self-teaching students.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.
Specialist education. Centres, teachers and students. Private sector Catalonia. School year 2023/2024
Centres Teachers Students
Music (1) 91 2,052 17,846
Elementary level 77 1,259 15,466
Medium level 9 253 546
Higher level 5 540 1,834
Dance 47 247 6,267
Elementary level 47 247 6,267
Medium level 0 0 0
Higher level 0 0 0
Dramatic arts 1 73 178
Plastic arts and design 6 370 280
Higher design studies (2) 2 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 1,095
Catering and conservation 0 0 0
Languages 0 0 0
Sport 21 86 2,413
Source: Departament d'Educació i Formació Professional
Notes:
(1) Music schools, conservatories and higher schools.
(2) Combined plastic arts and design teaching staff.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: September 30, 2025.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Special regime education
Education that is not integrated in the levels, stages or cycles of the general regime. They have their own structure and levels, and can be anything from elementary education or equivalent studies to diplomas or degrees. They can be studied at the same time as the general regime or special regime.

Methodological aspects

The data on infant, primary and secondary education is taken from an exploitation of the data provided by the Generalitat de Catalunya's Ministry of Education or teaching centres at all education levels. The public sector includes data for the centres that depend on the Ministry of Education and other public administrations, while the private sector deals with privately owned centres.

In 1990 the Law for general ordering of the education system (LOGSE) was passed, which modifies the previous education system (LGE) of 1970. In the 1991/92 academic year the teaching approved by the new law was gradually introduced and the 2000/01 academic year was the first in which none of the teaching relating to the previous education system was still in existence.

However, the two education models coexisted over the long period of experimentation and implantation of the new education law.

The data on centres and teaching staff is given, on the one hand, for infant and primary education as a whole, and on the other, for secondary education, although it is often the case that centres and teachers overlap in terms of the different levels given.

The centres have been counted as many times as the number of teachings they provide.

Data are provisional.