Students flows in secondary school. Stability and changes although educational reforms

Abstract

This article makes a flow analysis of student's circulation in secondary school, in an historical point of view. We are calculated the students flow during the last period of LGE (General Education Act) and during the first step of LOGSE (Educational System Act). The data are from Education Department (autonomous govern). We can compare the results of statistical analysis, the flows diagrams, and we can see some changes but also some strong permanent trends, for example in choices between academic or vocational studies, the selection inside the academic track or the access to higher education. Finally, we discuss about the possibilities of the last reform, LOCE, to modify these flows.