By the morning of December 18, 2025, 9,407 displaced pupils had temporarily enrolled at 1,602 educational institutions across 22 provincial and capital-level jurisdictions.
Recently, Minister of Education, Youth and Sport Hang Chuon Naron called on displaced parents and guardians to register their children for temporary study at institutions closest to their temporary safe shelters during the difficult Cambodia–Thailand border conflict.
The report states that, from December 7 to 17, 2025, during what the source describes as Thai military aggression, 1,091 border schools in seven provinces closed, affecting 11,922 teachers and 254,480 pupils. Displacement had risen to 131,672 households, or 438,953 people, including 225,572 women and 134,602 children. By Chinta Titi
