The situation with the organization of the educational process in the capital has stabilized after massive Russian attacks on energy infrastructure. Almost 90% of schools have abandoned distance learning and switched to classroom learning.
This was announced on March 19 by the Director of the Department of Education and Science of the Kyiv City State Administration, Olena Fidanyan.
According to the official, as of March 16, 88.8% of secondary education institutions are operating in person — that's 364 schools. At the end of February, the Kyiv City State Administration reported over 300 schools, which is almost 80% of the total number, operating offline.
“Almost 177 thousand children study in classrooms in person. Only 2.2% of schools operate remotely, another 9% in a mixed format. In all institutions with full-time and mixed forms of education, where there are catering units, meals are organized,” said Olena Fidanyan.
According to her, attendance at preschool institutions is gradually increasing. As of today, more than 35,400 children attend kindergartens, which is 57.5% of the total enrollment.
Meanwhile, 6% of educational institutions in Kyiv still remain without heating — 33 kindergartens and 27 schools.
The most difficult situation is in the Darnytsia district, where, due to the consequences of shelling and internal network failures, low temperatures are being recorded in some institutions.
What is known about studying in Kyiv schools?
As of February 19, 14% of Kyiv's educational institutions, including 62 schools, were without heating. In some of these schools, students were studying remotely. The so-called educational migration to institutions with heating was also introduced.
On February 9, it was reported that some kindergartens and schools in Kyiv are being merged due to problems with heating. This model is being used in the Holosiivskyi, Darnytskyi, Dniprovskyi, and Solomyanskyi districts. Pupils from individual kindergartens are being temporarily transferred to kindergartens with heating.
On February 6, the Kyiv City State Administration reported that about 45% of educational institutions in the Darnytskyi and Dniprovskyi districts of Kyiv, which were left without heating, will work remotely during the period of restoration of the CHPP-4 damaged by shelling.
On February 2, almost 110 thousand Kyiv schoolchildren returned to full-time education after the holidays. This is 41.6% of the total number of schoolchildren in the city. Almost 77 thousand schoolchildren, or 29.1%, chose distance learning. On individual form — 27.1 thousand students, which is 10.3%. Another 50.3 thousand children or 19% were absent from schools due to illness or family circumstances.
In total, almost 264 thousand students study in Kyiv schools, including 18.4 thousand first-graders.
Last November, it was reported that Kyiv had the largest student population of any region. The capital also had one of the highest rates of full-time education: 98% of students in the capital's municipal schools attended classes in class. The only other region with a higher rate was Lviv Oblast, which had 99.5%.