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If your child is in the final year of elementary school and you are now thinking about secondary school, then comprehensive school could be an option for you and your child.

Pupils in years 5 to 12 or 13 are taught at the comprehensive school.

You can obtain the following school-leaving qualifications at the comprehensive school:

• Hauptschulabschluss
• Realschulabschluss
• Abitur

Years 10 to 12 or 11 to 13 are run as a grammar school. The comprehensive school provides a general and vocational education and enables students to specialize according to their achievements and inclinations. This specialization enables pupils to continue their education at a university or in vocational or study-qualifying courses.

It is conducted in an integrative or cooperative form.

Cooperative form:

The comprehensive school in cooperative form combines the secondary school and the grammar school in educational and organizational terms. From Year 5 onwards, you will be taught in classes specific to the school form and in inter-form learning groups. The school form-specific lessons predominate. At the cooperative comprehensive school, you will receive the Abitur after 12 years.

Integrative form:
The integrative form of comprehensive school offers all qualifications in a differentiated teaching system. In an integrative comprehensive school, you do not have to decide on a type of school in advance. Years 7 to 10 are taught as a class. The number of subjects increases with the grades. The courses are formed according to the performance and inclination of the pupils. From year 9 onwards, you can choose a grammar school branch. At the integrative comprehensive school, you will receive the Abitur after 13 years.

• Half-year report
• School career declaration form

• Successful attendance at elementary school
• If there are more applications than school places, the school authority selects the pupils (e.g. by drawing lots). This selection procedure must not discriminate.

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• You will receive information about the options for attending the secondary school (comprehensive school) and the registration procedure (e.g. parents' evening, written information from the school)
• You will receive individual advice on your child's future school career.
• When the half-year reports are issued, you will receive the school career recommendation and the school career declaration form.
• You choose the appropriate type of school (comprehensive school).
• You will receive written notification from the receiving school as to whether your child will be admitted to the comprehensive school.

approx. 2-3 months

The school career declaration must be submitted to the elementary school currently attended by the deadline. The deadline will be announced when the half-year report card/school career declaration is issued.

• Comprehensive school admission
• Pupils in years 5 to 12 or 13 are taught at the comprehensive school. Years 10 to 12 or 11 to 13 are run as a grammar school.
• A distinction is made between cooperative and integrative comprehensive schools:
  • The cooperative comprehensive school combines the secondary school and the grammar school in educational and organizational terms. From Year 5 onwards, lessons are taught in classes specific to the school form and in learning groups across school forms, with the school form-specific lessons predominating.
  • The comprehensive school in integrative form offers a differentiated teaching system that leads to all qualifications (Hauptschulabschluss to Abitur) without allocation to different school types. Years 7 to 10 are taught in classes and in an increasing number of subjects in courses that are formed according to the performance and inclination of the pupils. A grammar school branch can be set up from year 9 onwards.
• Parents with children in year 4 receive information about the options for attending a secondary school (comprehensive school) and the registration process (e.g. parents' meeting, written information from the school).
• Individual advice on further schooling
• Receipt of the school career recommendation and the school career declaration form when the half-year reports are issued
• Entry of the chosen type of school (comprehensive school) in the school career declaration form and submission of the school career declaration to the elementary school currently attended
• Written notification from the receiving school about admission to the comprehensive school
• Admission requirements: Successful attendance of elementary school If the number of applications exceeds the number of possible admissionsthe school authority regulates a non-discriminatory selection procedure by statute, whereby lottery procedures are explicitly permitted .
• Documents: Half-year school report, school career declaration form
• No fees
• Processing time: approx. 2 -3 months
• It is also possible to transfer to a comprehensive school at a later date. Please refer to "Apply for transfer to another type of school".
• Responsible: Elementary school that the child currently attends

Please contact the elementary school your child currently attends.