MORE than 26 million public and private elementary and high school students nationwide will return to school on Monday, June 5, for the opening of academic year 2017-2018.

Of the 26.9 million students, 2.8 million are in senior high school (both grade 11 and 12), while the remaining 24.1 million are Kindergarten to Grade 10 learners, Education Secretary Leonor Briones said over the weekend.

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