The public system schools, ready or not, will receive 2,592,997 children returning from their summer holidays today. At the youngest level, toddlers are expected to number 245,000, primary schools will have their hands full with their 1,814,753 expected students and high schools have enrolled 532,833. The new school year will be officially recognized in a ceremony to be led by Education Minister Alejandrina German, and possibly attended by President Fernandez, at the Juan Bosch School on Los Arroyos Avenue in the La Puya section of Arroyo Hondo. School visits are also scheduled for the Dominican Republic School, the Professor Argentina Maria Mateo Lara High School and the Los Trinitarios Evening School. Eighty percent of all Dominican students attend public schools. Over the past week, the 13,274 schools in the state-run system were being cleaned and spruced up to receive the children.