Gallery: Over 6 million students back to school in Saudi Arabia
Some 6 million public school students across the kingdom back to school on Sunday to start the new academic year.
During the summer holiday, the ministry set up 3,313 kindergarten classes to accommodate 83,000 children Women are teaching 13.5 percent of young male pupils The schools of the General Administration of Education in Al-Baha region received more than 55,000 students For the first time ever, female teachers in Saudi Arabia are educating boys in 1,460 state-run schools across the kingdom. More than 280,000 students from different levels of education attended 1,300 schools for boys and girls in the Asir region Gifts and brochures distributed on the first day of school to students School transport fleet provides 20 thousand vehicles for 1,200,000 students in 18,000 schools Najran schools received 98 thousand students on the first days of the new academic year
