Comprehensive school

  • Performance specification

    A comprehensive school combines various courses of education in one school: the Hauptschule (lower secondary school), the Realschule (upper secondary school) and the Mittelstufe (lower secondary school) of the gymnasium. All qualifications awarded in these individual courses of education can be obtained by the pupils of a comprehensive school.

    A comprehensive school can comprise a primary level (grades 1 to 4) and a grammar school upper level. If a comprehensive school finishes with lower secondary level, the pupils can go on to secondary schools.

    Comprehensive schools in Hesse are organised according to school type (cooperative comprehensive school - KGS) or across school types (integrated comprehensive school - IGS).

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In Hesse, the Ministry of Education is responsible for the school system.

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