High School (Lower Saxony)

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The Oberschule in Lower Saxony is a type of school that has existed since the school year 2011/2012 , which was anchored in the Lower Saxony school system by § 10a of the Lower Saxony School Act.

The Oberschule combines the Hauptschule and Realschule into one type of school. The affiliation of a high school branch with lessons up to grade 10 is possible. However, the Abitur can still only be taken at grammar schools or comprehensive schools with an upper level. The Oberschule begins with the fifth grade and has two offer profiles, namely in the Oberschule the Hauptschule and the Realschule can be run as related school branches or it can only be broken down according to school year so that Hauptschule and Realschule students are taught in an integrated manner. In the secondary school, from the 9th grade onwards, school-branch-specific lessons should predominate. With a high school branch, the secondary school must have at least three courses, without a high school branch two courses. If a high school branch is set up, its pupils from grade seven should be instructed specifically for the school branch.

On applications of school boards to convert schools into high schools who decide Kreistage the relevant counties and the city councils in urban districts. Hauptschule and Realschulen do not have to be replaced by secondary schools if a minimum size of the schools that are to remain independent is guaranteed and the school authorities do not pass a resolution on conversion. The decision-makers in the responsible district have the right to reject a conversion application from the school authority.

Until the decision of the Lower Saxony state parliament, the Lower Saxony School Act prescribed a three-part structure into grammar school, secondary school and secondary school. The Oberschule joins the three school types as a new form of regular school. In Lower Saxony, the integrated comprehensive school is still only permitted as an additional offer that cannot completely replace the mainstream school forms at one location. The background to the reform is the overall decline in the number of pupils to around 700,000 in 2020 as well as a steadily declining transition rate to secondary school after grade four, since in Lower Saxony the parents' will is decisive for the allocation of students to grade five of a secondary school. Both factors together lead to the fact that only a minority of the school locations can run two or more main schools.

In October 2010 the state government presented the new type of school. The Prime Minister in Lower Saxony wanted to achieve a ten-year school peace through them . In March 2011, the Lower Saxony state parliament passed the school reform with the passing of the "Law on the Reorganization of the School Structure". The law has been implemented since summer 2011.

number of schools

At the start of the 2011/12 school year, the first 133 secondary schools were approved by the Lower Saxony state school authority, and a further 73 at the start of the 2012/13 school year.After the change of government under the red-green Weil government, only a few new secondary schools were approved; by the 2013/14 school year there were 18 Schools and 20 secondary schools were added for the 2014/15 school year.

In the state capital Hanover, where around 6.5% of the state's population live, not a single high school had been approved by the end of the 2013/14 school year. Corresponding applications from the Pestalozzi School and the Anderten secondary school were rejected in 2012. In the 2014/15 school year, the church Ludwig Windthorst School in Hanover was the first school to receive approval to convert into a secondary school. There are still no publicly sponsored secondary schools in the state capital in the 2014/15 school year. Finally, the only remaining secondary schools in the city, the Peter Ustinov School in Ricklingen and the Anderten secondary school, were converted into secondary schools from 2017.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ State school authority Lower Saxony: Approved high schools from the school year 2011/12
  2. ↑ Press release of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Culture of October 26, 2010
  3. ↑ McAllister promotes “school peace”  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . New Osnabrück newspaper . November 1, 2010@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.noz.de  
  4. ↑ Julia Spurzem and Jürgen Voges: Lower Saxony will abolish secondary schools this summer In: Die Welt online