Over the past 11 years, the number of foreign students in Italian schools has risen by 16%, while Italian-born students have dropped by 12.5%. This shift has partially slowed the overall decline in the student population, which has fallen from nearly 9 million in 2014 to around 8 million today (–9.9%), according to the 2025 Immigration Statistical Dossier from the IDOS Research Center. As of 2024, foreign students total 931,323, accounting for 11.6% of all pupils—a share significantly higher than immigrants’ proportion of Italy’s overall population (8.9%). Nearly two-thirds of these students (65.2%, or more than 607,000) were born in Italy, compared to just 51.7% eleven years ago. Half of the foreign student population comes from five main nationalities: Romanian, Albanian, Moroccan, Chinese, and Egyptian. The rest represent dozens of other origins. By continent, 42.9% are European (with EU citizens making up nearly one-fifth of the total), 27.8% African, 20.7% Asian, and 8.5% American (almost all from Latin America).