Selekta (Hamburg school type)

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The Selekta was a special Hamburg school facility from 1900 to the 1920s. It was practically a ninth voluntary school year with no school fees; it was replaced by the so-called superstructure , which ended with the middle school leaving certificate.

Pupils who had completed their eight years of compulsory education ( elementary school ) with above-average performance and whose support was deemed necessary by the school were accepted into the Selekta (“selected”) . These were almost exclusively students from those strata of the population whose parents were not in a position to raise the school fees required for grammar schools and high schools or who, in view of the occupation envisaged (mostly skilled trades), did not consider a higher education to be necessary.