Regional School

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Federal states with semi-integrative comprehensive schools (without a grammar school branch)

The regional school or regional school is a type of school in Germany in which the professional maturity can be acquired after class 9 and the intermediate maturity after class 10 . This type of school has since been introduced by several German federal states.

Regional schools are a combination of conventional secondary and secondary schools . They are characterized by the fact that students from grade 7 onwards can switch between the level of learning for Hauptschule and Realschule within the framework of an external performance differentiation. Depending on the school, this is done subject-specific or class-specific.

In contrast to the related integrated comprehensive school, there is no grammar school branch, so the school type grammar school exists in parallel. Regional schools are not elective schools, but must accept all children in their catchment area.

The school type arises automatically from the amalgamation of secondary and secondary schools and thus forms the new school form regional school.

advantages

In rural regions it is often costly and difficult to run both a secondary school and a secondary school due to a lack of pupil numbers. With a combined regional school, costs can be saved.

In addition, the hiring of new teachers is proving to be easier than at traditional secondary schools.

Examples

In Rhineland-Palatinate , the regional school had become a regular school from 1997 after the pilot phase had ended. In the 2007/08 school year there were 83 regional schools in Rhineland-Palatinate (36 of them all-day schools ). At the beginning of the 2009/10 school year, all regional schools in the state were converted into Realschulen plus .

Since the 2002/03 school year , secondary schools and secondary schools have also been replaced across the board by the regional school in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , which initially introduced the three- tier school system modeled on Bavaria after the reunification of Germany in 1990 . As a result, three types of school (Hauptschule, Realschule, Gymnasium) became two (Regional School, Gymnasium). The aims of the reform were, among other things, to strengthen the core subjects (German, mathematics, foreign language), improve professional orientation and improve the students' social skills.

In the draft of the new school law in Schleswig-Holstein , the then grand coalition in Kiel agreed to merge the Schleswig-Holstein secondary and secondary schools into regional schools in the 2010/11 school year. The model is currently running out in Schleswig-Holstein , regional schools with at least 240 students will be converted to community schools at the beginning of the 2014/2015 school year . The operation of regional schools with fewer than 240 pupils in the 2015/2016 school year will be discontinued at the end of the 2019/20 school year when all pupils have finished school.

Similar concepts from other federal states

Comparable school types are also the secondary school in Saxony , Brandenburg and Lower Saxony , the regular school in Thuringia , the extended secondary school in Saarland and the secondary school in Saxony-Anhalt and Bremen .

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