The state finances national minority education programmes in Latvia in seven languages: Russian, Polish, Hebrew, Ukrainian, Estonian, Lithuanian, and Belarusian.
At present the State provides funding to 104 educational institutions that implement minority educational programs (among them, 94 schools implement education programs in Russian and bilingually, 4 – in Polish and bilingually, 1 – in Ukrainian and bilingually, 2 – in Hebrew, 1 – in Latvian and Lithuanian, and 1 – in Latvian and Estonian) and 68 schools that have both Latvian and minority language programmes.
For the school year of 2017/18 a total of 49 380 students were registered in basic ethnic minorities’ education programmes (out of 176 675 students at this education level in total) and 9271 student was registered in secondary ethnic minorities’ education programmes (out of 36 693 students at this education level in total).