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900 850

742
719
675

536

450 409

295
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ti 225 70 97 124 109 108 97 159 180

ta 0 1945-46 1948-49 1950-51 1952-53 1954-55 1956-57 1958-59

di Table 1: Growth in the number of pupils at the Janko Premrl Vojko Primary School in Koper between the school years
1945–46 and 1959–60.*
*PAK, 963_2, Osnovna šola Janka Premrla Vojka, Šolske kronike.

tistics, which were directly influenced by various out the previous years. From 1953 and especially the primary school in postwar koper/capodistria as a social laboratory
here til the early 1950s, when the number of pupils no 1957 – the deadline by which residents who had
factors.
from 1955 onwards, the final, most intense phase
of the ‘exodus’ began. It lasted until February
The school consolidation process lasted un-
longer changed significantly. The fluctuations
opted for Italian citizenship and emigration to
Italy (in accordance with the London Memo-
were influenced by the annual change of gener-
randum) had to depart. At the same time immi-
ations, as well as by pupils coming over from the
Italian school. The school year 1953–54 marked
a new, landmark phase of development, as the
decade it had overcome the demographic deficit
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caused by the ‘exodus’. Increased birth rates also
number of pupils more than quadrupled by the gration increased sharply and by the end of the
end of the decade. The number of departments began to have an impact on population growth
multiplied accordingly, from seven in the school (Kalc 2019, 149–153). The migration process and
year 1952–53 to 21 five years later, with a teach- the effect of the population replacement was not
ing staff of 24. only reflected in schools on an annual basis, but
The rapid growth outlined here coincides also in an increase in the number of pupils in the
with the resolution of the so-called Trieste is- course of the school year. From the beginning
sue and the migratory dynamics triggered by the to the end of the 1955/56 school year, the num-
division of the FTT between Yugoslavia and It- ber of pupils at the Janko Premrl Vojko school
aly. Emigration from Zone B to Zone A of the increased from 330 to 409, and the same trend
FTT and immigration to Zone B from Slovenia continued. In the following years, school enrol-
and elsewhere had been taking place through- ment reflects a continuous immigration of fami-