Portugal currently has two million students in the education system. The immigrant population played a fundamental role in reversing the trend of decreasing children in the education system. This demographic phenomenon helped stabilize the total number of students in the country.
Regarding teachers, there is a shortage in several regions, although this shortage is less pronounced in the North and Centre of the country. A positive note is the increase in enrolments in teacher training courses, which could help address these shortages in the future.
Academic results are better in the North and Centre regions, where the teacher shortage is less problematic. However, territorial inequalities between these areas and the rest of the country have intensified in recent years, creating a growing disparity in educational performance.
On a positive note, students repeat grades less than before, indicating an improvement in pass rates. However, this positive trend is not distributed evenly across the territory, with regional differences remaining a challenge for the Portuguese education system.
