The new school map will affect two schools in South Aveyron for the start of the September 2024 school year

Les petits du Sud Aveyron sont, globalement, épargnés par les fermetures. Sauf ceux de Brusque qui devront aller à Cénomes dès septembre prochain.. Midi Libre – J.M MART

Despite a "minimized" class closures, the Brusque school will nevertheless disappear.

Like every year at this time, the National Education services plan the number of positions to be filled or eliminated for the next school year based on the enrollment forecast. The Toulouse academy has neither granted nor asked to return positions for the department of Aveyron. DASEN (academic director of national education services) therefore proposed a number of job cuts to compensate for the creations.

Regarding South Aveyron, two schools will be impacted by the closure of a class. The final arbitrations took place this Friday, February 2 during the CDEN (Departmental Commission for National Education).
Vabres-l’Abbaye will lose a position In this projection, the Vabres-l’Abbaye school which currently has 4 classes will lose a position and a quarter-time of management.

Vabres-l'Abbaye will lose a position 

A closure that does not pass muster with a mother of a student."In Vabres we favor the private school which does not have the same rules as the public to accommodate the little ones. The teachers argued for the elimination of half a position. There will only be 8 fewer students next year. Students born in 2022 cannot be counted but they will have to be accommodated. We are disappointed in view of the daily investment of teachers. We are in a system of competition."

127 fewer students in Aveyron

The Academy Inspection has confirmed that, "for five years, a significant and regular drop in numbers has been observed in the academy. Aveyron. At the start of the 2023 school year, there will be some 400 fewer students observed in the department's public and private schools." And, for the start of the school year next September, the drop in enrollment is estimated at 127 students in Aveyron. Thus, academic services ensure that the supervision rate of Aveyron students (number of school teachers per 100 students), in constant progression since 2016, will increase further in September 2024.

The other planned closure is more emblematic because it will cause the disappearance of a village school, in this case that of Brusque. In rural areas, such a measure is not without consequences on the lives of the families concerned, on the dynamism and attractiveness of a village. The Brusque school is part of the RPI (intercommunal educational gathering) with Cénomes and Montagnol. The youngest being schooled in Cénomes and the oldest in Brusque.

The students of Brusque will go to Cénomes

Due to a lack of sufficient numbers for the next school year, the students should all be educated in Cénomes. "The decision must be ratified by our municipal council" indicates Bernard Bouzat the 1st deputy of the commune of Brusque "We had a meeting with the municipality of Cénomes and the parents of students. The school had 9 students at the start of the school year. For the next school year there will only be seven, including six coming from Cénomes."

"You have to be realistic" pursues the chosen one. "We have a lot of regrets about closing the school, especially since children from Brusque are educated in Fayet or Camarès."  There remains the good news for South Aveyron: the creation of a replacement position attached to the Montjaux school. These measures are part of a general context where the erosion of numbers continues, particularly in rural areas. 

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