The start of the school year at the IES Llorenç Villalonga in Palma, the center chosen to implement the new and questioned Excellence Baccalaureate in Mallorca, has added a new debate. The Religion department has distributed a two-page document among the students and their families to promote the subject, in which it is stated that it serves to "humanize and complement the academic learning of the public school" and that it "unmasks the fallacious division of subjects between science and humanities". The text, which also argues that science and faith are "two sides of the same coin, two wings of the human spirit", has aroused suspicions in the educational community due to the terms in which it defines public education and the rest of the academic disciplines.

The Baccalaureate of Excellence promoted by the Ministry of Education will begin next academic year with a response, for now, very unequal between islands. The new Llorenç Villalonga institute in Palma has already received 65 applications for the initially planned 60 places—which can be extended to 70—, while the excellence classroom at IES Algarb, in Eivissa, has registered 22 (for 30 places). On the other hand, in Menorca, the project has awakened, at the moment, much less interest: only 11 students have requested a place at IES Joan Ramis i Ramis in Maó (30 places). Of the students who have requested a place, 90.48% come from public schools. Enrollment remains active.