Indicator history

Children attend schools according to their residence. In areas with high concentration of migrant population, schools are considered by the majority to be degraded and those parents who have the possibility send their children to private schools.  

According to Gregoriou, Z. (2010), Thematic Report “Intercultural Education” (WP5), GeMIC: Gender - Migration - Intercultural Interaction in South-East Europe, p. 59, "at the level of social practices, we observe the de facto segregation of public schools through the selective placement of Greek and migrant students in different school districts with a smaller or larger migrant population. In other words, Greek parents, as well as educational authorities, prefer to enroll Greek children in all-Greek rather than mixed schools, or, which amounts to the same effect, send them to private schools, which are, for socio-economic reasons, inaccessible to migrant families."