<P> Schools supply a list of what is required at the start of each school year and which will include art and craft materials as well as text and exercise books . From 2009, this figure was around £ 300 and in 2011 was nearer £ 500; as of 2011, the cost of books averaged 170 euros for preschool and 300 euros for primary students . In some regions, the autonomous government is giving tokens to exchange them in book shops for free (due to the economic crisis, this has all but ceased in Valencia), this is being adapted in 2006 in regions, such as Andalusia, where kids from 3 to 10 will get the books for free, on the following years it is expected for all compulsory years . School uniform is not normally worn in state schools but is usually worn in private schools . </P> <P> Article 84 of the governing law defines the principles to be applied in the admission of pupils to publicly funded schools . The details of the implementation of these principles vary from autonomous community to autonomous community . </P> <P> In Madrid, there is a largely uniform admissions process for state funded schools, both colegios públicos and colegios concertados . Here the main admissions procedures for pupils wishing to join a school in the autumn are carried out in the spring of the year in question . </P> <P> Parents can choose the school to which they wish to send their child . It is not uncommon that there be insufficient places in a popular school for all the children for whom places are requested . In such cases places are allocated according to rather strictly defined admissions criteria as defined in Annex IX to the order establishing the process . </P>

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