List of high schools in Thuringia
The list of high schools in Thuringia collects all high schools in the Free State of Thuringia .
introduction
The medieval and early modern Latin schools can be seen as the roots of today's grammar schools . In Thuringia they existed mainly in the big cities under the roof of the church and from the 16th century also in the royal cities as a sovereign institution. The group of these schools forms a part from which today's high schools emerged.
When cities grew in the second half of the 19th century and industry needed a larger number of well-trained managers, a second wave of high schools began, which also encompassed new industrial cities without a residence. In the country, however, there were still no schools that led to the Abitur. This did not change until 1947, when the SMAD restructured the school landscape and laid the foundation for the GDR education system; now there were isolated schools in rural communities that led to the Abitur. In the GDR, the Extended Oberschule (EOS) took the place of the grammar school. Although the way to the Abitur was in principle open to all students, their number remained limited due to economic and political restrictions.
Only the political change in 1989/90 made a new school reform necessary, which in 1991 led to the (re-) introduction of the grammar school in Thuringia. This went hand in hand with the educational expansion that had already taken place in West Germany in the course of the 1970s, and which now also resulted in a high school graduation rate of almost 40% of a given year group in Thuringia. In 1991, many high schools were founded both in cities and in rural areas. With the drastic decline in the total number of pupils from 2000 onwards, many high schools in the countryside were closed again and merged in the cities, so that there is, for example, only one high school in the independent city of Suhl . In rural communities there are only grammar schools in Gerstungen , Großengottern , Kaltensundheim , Lengenfeld unterm Stein and Neudietendorf , whereby for some of these schools the "educational tourism " from Hesse (where there are hardly any grammar schools, but mostly comprehensive schools) plays a significant role.
Cities with several high schools are Erfurt (9), Jena (6), Weimar (4) and Gera (4). There are three grammar schools each in Altenburg , Eisenach and Gotha , and two each in Heiligenstadt , Ilmenau , Meiningen , Mühlhausen , Nordhausen and Saalfeld .
Specific to the structure of the grammar schools in Thuringia is the high proportion of special schools with linguistic, artistic, sporting or scientific elite support (9). In contrast, both the number of comprehensive schools with a grammar school section and the number of church (8) and private (2) grammar schools are low.
list
The founding year for old schools is assumed to be the founding date of the Latin school, for new ones (from the middle of the 19th century) the year from which the school or its predecessors first graduated from high school . The information usually relates to the information provided by the schools on their websites. School statistics from the Ministry of Culture were used as the source of the student numbers.
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