Satigny
Encyclopedia
Satigny is a municipality
of the Canton of Geneva
, Switzerland
. It is the largest wine
-producing municipality in Switzerland.
Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 6.8% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 5.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.4%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 2.0% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.1%. Out of the forested land, 16.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 29.6% is used for growing crops and 3.7% is pastures, while 26.2% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
It consists of the villages of Satigny, Bourdigny, Choully, Peissy, Peney, Château des Bois and Moulin-Fabry.
The municipality of Satigny consists of the sub-sections or villages of Satigny - Grands-Bois, Choully, Bourdigny, ZIMEYSA - Pré-Bouvier, ZIMEYSA - Moulières, Montfleury, Bois-de-Bay, Peney, La Boverie, Peissy, Satigny - village.
Most of the population speaks French
(2,208 or 79.3%), with German
being second most common (137 or 4.9%) and English
being third (125 or 4.5%). There are 62 people who speak Italian
and 2 people who speak Romansh.
, the gender distribution of the population was 51.5% male and 48.5% female. The population was made up of 1,338 Swiss men (36.2% of the population) and 565 (15.3%) non-Swiss men. There were 1,372 Swiss women (37.1%) and 423 (11.4%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 599 or about 21.5% were born in Satigny and lived there in 2000. There were 781 or 28.0% who were born in the same canton, while 463 or 16.6% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 808 or 29.0% were born outside of Switzerland.
In there were 23 live births to Swiss citizens and 6 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 34 deaths of Swiss citizens and 10 non-Swiss citizen deaths. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 11 while the foreign population decreased by 4. There were 3 Swiss men who immigrated back to Switzerland and 8 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there were 43 non-Swiss men and 22 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 91 and the non-Swiss population increased by 42 people. This represents a population growth rate of 4.4%.
The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 24.8% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 64.1% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 11%.
, there were 1,128 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 1,405 married individuals, 119 widows or widowers and 133 individuals who are divorced.
the average number of residents per living room was 0.6 which is about equal to the cantonal average of 0.64 per room. In this case, a room is defined as space of a housing unit of at least 4 m² (43.1 sq ft) as normal bedrooms, dining rooms, living rooms, kitchens and habitable cellars and attics. About 37.5% of the total households were owner occupied, or in other words did not pay rent (though they may have a mortgage
or a rent-to-own agreement).
, there were 1,043 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household. There were 290 households that consist of only one person and 68 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 1,087 households that answered this question, 26.7% were households made up of just one person and there were 4 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 292 married couples without children, 404 married couples with children There were 42 single parents with a child or children. There were 11 households that were made up of unrelated people and 44 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
there were 276 single family homes (or 48.4% of the total) out of a total of 570 inhabited buildings. There were 122 multi-family buildings (21.4%), along with 125 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (21.9%) and 47 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (8.2%). Of the single family homes 100 were built before 1919, while 8 were built between 1990 and 2000. The most multi-family homes (39) were built before 1919 and the next most (26) were built between 1996 and 2000.
there were 1,132 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 3 rooms of which there were 299. There were 86 single room apartments and 384 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 977 apartments (86.3% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 128 apartments (11.3%) were seasonally occupied and 27 apartments (2.4%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 18.3 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.23%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
and Farms in Choully and Domaine Pellegrin in Peissy are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance
. The villages of Bourdigny, Choully, Peissy and the Satigny-Dessus area are all part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites
.
the most popular party was the SVP
which received 20.63% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the Green Party
(16.52%), the FDP
(16.37%) and the LPS Party
(15.09%). In the federal election, a total of 894 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
was 52.7%.
In the 2009 Grand Conseil
election, there were a total of 1,833 registered voters of which 806 (44.0%) voted. The most popular party in the municipality for this election was the Les Radicaux
with 17.6% of the ballots. In the canton-wide election they received the sixth highest proportion of votes. The second most popular party was the Les Verts
(with 17.3%), they were also second in the canton-wide election, while the third most popular party was the Libéral
(with 14.8%), they were first in the canton-wide election.
For the 2009 Conseil d'Etat election, there were a total of 1,832 registered voters of which 996 (54.4%) voted.
In 2011, all the municipalities held local elections, and in Satigny there were 19 spots open on the municipal council. There were a total of 2,381 registered voters of which 1,172 (49.2%) voted. Out of the 1,172 votes, there were 11 blank votes, 10 null or unreadable votes and 169 votes with a name that was not on the list.
the total number of full-time equivalent
jobs was 7,044. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 139, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 4,322 of which 3,074 or (71.1%) were in manufacturing, 28 or (0.6%) were in mining and 1,140 (26.4%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 2,583. In the tertiary sector; 1,183 or 45.8% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 317 or 12.3% were in the movement and storage of goods, 172 or 6.7% were in a hotel or restaurant, 146 or 5.7% were in the information industry, 21 or 0.8% were the insurance or financial industry, 322 or 12.5% were technical professionals or scientists, 19 or 0.7% were in education and 160 or 6.2% were in health care.
, there were 7,090 workers who commuted into the municipality and 1,056 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 6.7 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving. About 27.7% of the workforce coming into Satigny are coming from outside Switzerland, while 0.2% of the locals commute out of Switzerland for work. Of the working population, 13.5% used public transportation to get to work, and 66.6% used a private car.
. Of the rest of the population, there were 12 members of an Orthodox church
(or about 0.43% of the population), there were 7 individuals (or about 0.25% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church
, and there were 72 individuals (or about 2.59% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 4 individuals (or about 0.14% of the population) who were Jewish
, and 16 (or about 0.57% of the population) who were Islam
ic. There were 17 individuals who were Buddhist
, 2 individuals who were Hindu
and 4 individuals who belonged to another church. 617 (or about 22.15% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
or atheist
, and 224 individuals (or about 8.04% of the population) did not answer the question.
). Of the 608 who completed tertiary schooling, 40.6% were Swiss men, 28.6% were Swiss women, 17.8% were non-Swiss men and 13.0% were non-Swiss women.
During the 2009-2010 school year there were a total of 763 students in the Satigny school system. The education system
in the Canton of Geneva allows young children to attend two years of non-obligatory Kindergarten
. During that school year, there were 95 children who were in a pre-kindergarten class. The canton's school system provides two years of non-mandatory kindergarten and requires students to attend six years of primary school, with some of the children attending smaller, specialized classes. In Satigny there were 93 students in kindergarten or primary school and 10 students were in the special, smaller classes. The secondary school
program consists of three lower, obligatory years of schooling, followed by three to five years of optional, advanced schools. There were 93 lower secondary students who attended school in Satigny. There were 143 upper secondary students from the municipality along with 21 students who were in a professional, non-university track program. An additional 43 students attended a private school.
, there were 7 students in Satigny who came from another municipality, while 261 residents attended schools outside the municipality.
Municipalities of Switzerland
Communes , also known as municipalities, are the smallest government division in Switzerland, numbering 2,596 . While many have a population of a few hundred citizens, the largest cities such as Zürich or Geneva also have the legal status of municipalities...
of the Canton of Geneva
Canton of Geneva
The Republic and Canton of Geneva is the French speaking westernmost canton or state of Switzerland, surrounded on almost all sides by France. As is the case in several other Swiss cantons The Republic and Canton of Geneva is the French speaking westernmost canton or state of Switzerland,...
, Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
. It is the largest wine
Wine
Wine is an alcoholic beverage, made of fermented fruit juice, usually from grapes. The natural chemical balance of grapes lets them ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, or other nutrients. Grape wine is produced by fermenting crushed grapes using various types of yeast. Yeast...
-producing municipality in Switzerland.
History
Satigny is first mentioned in 91 as villam Satiniatis, though this comes from a 12th Century copy of the earlier document. In around 1128 it was mentioned as de Satiniaco and in 1280 as Satignie.Geography
Satigny has an area, , of 18.92 square kilometres (7.3 sq mi). Of this area, 11.25 km² (4.3 sq mi) or 59.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 3.51 km² (1.4 sq mi) or 18.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 3.68 km² (1.4 sq mi) or 19.5% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.44 km² (0.169884949780715 sq mi) or 2.3% is either rivers or lakes and 0.03 km² (7.4 acre) or 0.2% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 6.8% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 5.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.4%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 2.0% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.1%. Out of the forested land, 16.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 29.6% is used for growing crops and 3.7% is pastures, while 26.2% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
It consists of the villages of Satigny, Bourdigny, Choully, Peissy, Peney, Château des Bois and Moulin-Fabry.
The municipality of Satigny consists of the sub-sections or villages of Satigny - Grands-Bois, Choully, Bourdigny, ZIMEYSA - Pré-Bouvier, ZIMEYSA - Moulières, Montfleury, Bois-de-Bay, Peney, La Boverie, Peissy, Satigny - village.
Demographics
Satigny has a population of . , 25.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 21.6%. It has changed at a rate of 21.6% due to migration and at a rate of 0.3% due to births and deaths.Most of the population speaks French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
(2,208 or 79.3%), with German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
being second most common (137 or 4.9%) and English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
being third (125 or 4.5%). There are 62 people who speak Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
and 2 people who speak Romansh.
, the gender distribution of the population was 51.5% male and 48.5% female. The population was made up of 1,338 Swiss men (36.2% of the population) and 565 (15.3%) non-Swiss men. There were 1,372 Swiss women (37.1%) and 423 (11.4%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 599 or about 21.5% were born in Satigny and lived there in 2000. There were 781 or 28.0% who were born in the same canton, while 463 or 16.6% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 808 or 29.0% were born outside of Switzerland.
In there were 23 live births to Swiss citizens and 6 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 34 deaths of Swiss citizens and 10 non-Swiss citizen deaths. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 11 while the foreign population decreased by 4. There were 3 Swiss men who immigrated back to Switzerland and 8 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there were 43 non-Swiss men and 22 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 91 and the non-Swiss population increased by 42 people. This represents a population growth rate of 4.4%.
The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 24.8% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 64.1% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 11%.
, there were 1,128 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 1,405 married individuals, 119 widows or widowers and 133 individuals who are divorced.
the average number of residents per living room was 0.6 which is about equal to the cantonal average of 0.64 per room. In this case, a room is defined as space of a housing unit of at least 4 m² (43.1 sq ft) as normal bedrooms, dining rooms, living rooms, kitchens and habitable cellars and attics. About 37.5% of the total households were owner occupied, or in other words did not pay rent (though they may have a mortgage
Mortgage loan
A mortgage loan is a loan secured by real property through the use of a mortgage note which evidences the existence of the loan and the encumbrance of that realty through the granting of a mortgage which secures the loan...
or a rent-to-own agreement).
, there were 1,043 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household. There were 290 households that consist of only one person and 68 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 1,087 households that answered this question, 26.7% were households made up of just one person and there were 4 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 292 married couples without children, 404 married couples with children There were 42 single parents with a child or children. There were 11 households that were made up of unrelated people and 44 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
there were 276 single family homes (or 48.4% of the total) out of a total of 570 inhabited buildings. There were 122 multi-family buildings (21.4%), along with 125 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (21.9%) and 47 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (8.2%). Of the single family homes 100 were built before 1919, while 8 were built between 1990 and 2000. The most multi-family homes (39) were built before 1919 and the next most (26) were built between 1996 and 2000.
there were 1,132 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 3 rooms of which there were 299. There were 86 single room apartments and 384 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 977 apartments (86.3% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 128 apartments (11.3%) were seasonally occupied and 27 apartments (2.4%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 18.3 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.23%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
Heritage sites of national significance
Choully CastleChoully Castle
Choully Castle is a castle in the municipality of Satigny of the Canton of Geneva in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.-References:...
and Farms in Choully and Domaine Pellegrin in Peissy are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance
Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance
The Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance is a register of some 8,300 items of cultural property in Switzerland...
. The villages of Bourdigny, Choully, Peissy and the Satigny-Dessus area are all part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites
Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites
The Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites is part of a 1981 Ordinance of the Swiss Federal Council implementing the Federal Law on the Protection of Nature and Cultural Heritage.-Sites of national importance:-Types:...
.
Politics
In the 2007 federal electionSwiss federal election, 2007
Elections to the Swiss Federal Assembly, the federal parliament of Switzerland, were held on Sunday, 21 October 2007. In a few cantons, a second round of the elections to the Council of States was held on 11 November, 18 November, and 25 November 2007...
the most popular party was the SVP
Swiss People's Party
The Swiss People's Party , also known as the Democratic Union of the Centre , is a conservative political party in Switzerland. Chaired by Toni Brunner, but spearheaded by Christoph Blocher, the party is the largest party in the Federal Assembly, with 58 members of the National Council and 6 of...
which received 20.63% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the Green Party
Green Party of Switzerland
The Green Party of Switzerland is the fifth-largest party in the National Council of Switzerland, and the largest party that is not represented on the Federal Council.-History:...
(16.52%), the FDP
FDP.The Liberals
FDP.The Liberals is a classical liberal political party in Switzerland. It is the joint-largest party in the Federal Council, third-largest party in the National Council, and second-largest in the Council of States....
(16.37%) and the LPS Party
Liberal Party of Switzerland
The Liberal Party of Switzerland was a party with economically liberal policies. It was known as a party of the upper class. On 1 January 2009 it merged with the larger Free Democratic Party to establish FDP.The Liberals....
(15.09%). In the federal election, a total of 894 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
Voter turnout
Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s...
was 52.7%.
In the 2009 Grand Conseil
Grand Council of Geneva
The Grand Council of Geneva is the legislature of the canton of Geneva, in Switzerland. Geneva, styled as a 'Republic and Canton', has a unicameral legislature. The Grand Council has 100 seats, with members elected every four years...
election, there were a total of 1,833 registered voters of which 806 (44.0%) voted. The most popular party in the municipality for this election was the Les Radicaux
Free Democratic Party of Switzerland
The Free Democratic Party was a classical liberal political party in Switzerland. It was one of the major parties in Switzerland until its merger with the smaller classical liberal Liberal Party, to form FDP.The Liberals on 1 January 2009....
with 17.6% of the ballots. In the canton-wide election they received the sixth highest proportion of votes. The second most popular party was the Les Verts
Green Party of Switzerland
The Green Party of Switzerland is the fifth-largest party in the National Council of Switzerland, and the largest party that is not represented on the Federal Council.-History:...
(with 17.3%), they were also second in the canton-wide election, while the third most popular party was the Libéral
FDP.The Liberals
FDP.The Liberals is a classical liberal political party in Switzerland. It is the joint-largest party in the Federal Council, third-largest party in the National Council, and second-largest in the Council of States....
(with 14.8%), they were first in the canton-wide election.
For the 2009 Conseil d'Etat election, there were a total of 1,832 registered voters of which 996 (54.4%) voted.
In 2011, all the municipalities held local elections, and in Satigny there were 19 spots open on the municipal council. There were a total of 2,381 registered voters of which 1,172 (49.2%) voted. Out of the 1,172 votes, there were 11 blank votes, 10 null or unreadable votes and 169 votes with a name that was not on the list.
Economy
, Satigny had an unemployment rate of 3.5%. , there were 188 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 42 businesses involved in this sector. 4,431 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 137 businesses in this sector. 2,867 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 244 businesses in this sector. There were 1,447 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.4% of the workforce.the total number of full-time equivalent
Full-time equivalent
Full-time equivalent , is a unit to measure employed persons or students in a way that makes them comparable although they may work or study a different number of hours per week. FTE is often used to measure a worker's involvement in a project, or to track cost reductions in an organization...
jobs was 7,044. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 139, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 4,322 of which 3,074 or (71.1%) were in manufacturing, 28 or (0.6%) were in mining and 1,140 (26.4%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 2,583. In the tertiary sector; 1,183 or 45.8% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 317 or 12.3% were in the movement and storage of goods, 172 or 6.7% were in a hotel or restaurant, 146 or 5.7% were in the information industry, 21 or 0.8% were the insurance or financial industry, 322 or 12.5% were technical professionals or scientists, 19 or 0.7% were in education and 160 or 6.2% were in health care.
, there were 7,090 workers who commuted into the municipality and 1,056 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 6.7 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving. About 27.7% of the workforce coming into Satigny are coming from outside Switzerland, while 0.2% of the locals commute out of Switzerland for work. Of the working population, 13.5% used public transportation to get to work, and 66.6% used a private car.
Religion
From the , 1,075 or 38.6% were Roman Catholic, while 735 or 26.4% belonged to the Swiss Reformed ChurchSwiss Reformed Church
The Reformed branch of Protestantism in Switzerland was started in Zürich by Huldrych Zwingli and spread within a few years to Basel , Bern , St...
. Of the rest of the population, there were 12 members of an Orthodox church
Orthodox Christianity
The term Orthodox Christianity may refer to:* the Eastern Orthodox Church and its various geographical subdivisions...
(or about 0.43% of the population), there were 7 individuals (or about 0.25% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church
Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland
The Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland is the Swiss member church of the Union of Utrecht, also known as Old Catholic Church, originally founded by the jansenists, with a later influx of discontented Catholics following their disappointment with the First Vatican Council. It has 14,000...
, and there were 72 individuals (or about 2.59% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 4 individuals (or about 0.14% of the population) who were Jewish
Judaism
Judaism ) is the "religion, philosophy, and way of life" of the Jewish people...
, and 16 (or about 0.57% of the population) who were Islam
Islam
Islam . The most common are and . : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...
ic. There were 17 individuals who were Buddhist
Buddhism
Buddhism is a religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha . The Buddha lived and taught in the northeastern Indian subcontinent some time between the 6th and 4th...
, 2 individuals who were Hindu
Hinduism
Hinduism is the predominant and indigenous religious tradition of the Indian Subcontinent. Hinduism is known to its followers as , amongst many other expressions...
and 4 individuals who belonged to another church. 617 (or about 22.15% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
Agnosticism
Agnosticism is the view that the truth value of certain claims—especially claims about the existence or non-existence of any deity, but also other religious and metaphysical claims—is unknown or unknowable....
or atheist
Atheism
Atheism is, in a broad sense, the rejection of belief in the existence of deities. In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities...
, and 224 individuals (or about 8.04% of the population) did not answer the question.
Education
In Satigny about 857 or (30.8%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 608 or (21.8%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a FachhochschuleFachhochschule
A Fachhochschule or University of Applied Sciences is a German type of tertiary education institution, sometimes specialized in certain topical areas . Fachhochschulen were founded in Germany and later adopted by Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Greece...
). Of the 608 who completed tertiary schooling, 40.6% were Swiss men, 28.6% were Swiss women, 17.8% were non-Swiss men and 13.0% were non-Swiss women.
During the 2009-2010 school year there were a total of 763 students in the Satigny school system. The education system
Education in Switzerland
The education system in Switzerland is very diverse, because the constitution of Switzerland delegates the authority for the school system mainly to the cantons...
in the Canton of Geneva allows young children to attend two years of non-obligatory Kindergarten
Kindergarten
A kindergarten is a preschool educational institution for children. The term was created by Friedrich Fröbel for the play and activity institute that he created in 1837 in Bad Blankenburg as a social experience for children for their transition from home to school...
. During that school year, there were 95 children who were in a pre-kindergarten class. The canton's school system provides two years of non-mandatory kindergarten and requires students to attend six years of primary school, with some of the children attending smaller, specialized classes. In Satigny there were 93 students in kindergarten or primary school and 10 students were in the special, smaller classes. The secondary school
Secondary school
Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...
program consists of three lower, obligatory years of schooling, followed by three to five years of optional, advanced schools. There were 93 lower secondary students who attended school in Satigny. There were 143 upper secondary students from the municipality along with 21 students who were in a professional, non-university track program. An additional 43 students attended a private school.
, there were 7 students in Satigny who came from another municipality, while 261 residents attended schools outside the municipality.