Educational services in the suburban zone of Szczecin (Poland)

The main objective of the study was to analyze the diversification of the potential of educational services of communes (NUTS 5) belonging to the suburban area of Szczecin, at all levels of general education (International Standard Classification of Education, ISCED 1, 2 and 3) in the 2016/2017 school year – primary, junior high school, and high schools. The research covered 19 communes forming the internal and external ring surrounding Szczecin. For this purpose, following measures of the potential of educational services were used: the number of schools, school classes, pupils and teachers’ posts, as well as educational indicators, i.e. the number of pupils per school, the number of classes per school, and the number of full-time teacher’s position per school. In order to determine the demand for educational services, a gross enrollment rate was applied to individual communes. The final result of the research is a synthetic map of the potential of educational services for the communes of the suburban zone of Szczecin.