School offer

School enrollment (formal school registration without children) usually takes place in November. The responsible elementary school invites the legal guardians in writing to enroll their children. Legal guardians who do not receive an invitation should contact the elementary school responsible for their place of residence. As a rule, school attendance takes place at the elementary school in whose school district their place of residence is located. Regardless of this, care is taken to ensure that class sizes are as equal as possible at neighboring elementary schools. This is also done with a view to evenly utilizing the available school space.

Requests for retraining are to be directed exclusively to the elementary school responsible for the child’s place of residence. Children who have been deferred from school attendance will also receive an invitation for school enrollment at the appropriate elementary school. Parents who wish to enroll their child in a private school will nevertheless contact the responsible elementary school. They are asked to submit the confirmation of admission as soon as possible.

The following documents are required for school enrollment:

• Birth certificate of the child
• or family register
• or an extract from the family register
• or a valid passport of the child

For working parents in particular, the question of school childcare can be of crucial importance. Information on the specific services on offer can be obtained from the school concerned and in the official gazette “Sonderdruck Grundschulen”.

All-day schools are educational and childcare facilities. They offer four days of 8 hours each (usually from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.) or four days of 7 hours each (from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.) of free individual support and encouragement for children and give them the opportunity to experience school as a “living space”. The all-day school is available both in the compulsory form, i.e. the entire school is set up as an all-day school, and in the optional form. In the optional form, individual classes, for example the “a” class of each level (1a, 2a, 3a, 4a) are set up as all-day, others as half-day. More information is available at primary school registration.

An essential component of the all-day school is a rhythmic timetable with exercise and snack breaks. In addition to lessons, there is a wide range of support and (leisure) educational activities. Learning and practice tasks are completed at school. During lunchtime, the child has the opportunity to eat a warm meal. In addition, pupils can choose between several open activities, for example playing, exercising, resting and handicrafts, or spend the entire lunch break at home.

In the afternoon, lessons and (recreational) educational activities alternate again. Before and after all-day school, at most between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m., as well as during the vacations, an additional fee-based childcare service can be booked. The offer is free of charge for Bonuscard recipients. Family Card holders receive discounts.

The City of Stuttgart organizes and subsidizes a warm lunch, with a personal contribution of 3.50 euros per lunch. Lunch is free of charge for Bonuscard recipients.

Reliable elementary school

This fee-based childcare service provided by the state capital is offered at half-day elementary school, at elementary school with a school house and at all-day elementary school in optional form for half-day children. At these elementary school, it offers care before school from 7 a.m. at the earliest and after school until 2 p.m. at the latest. Registration takes place at the school. The service is free of charge for Bonuscard holders. Family Card holders receive discounts.

Since the 2023/24 school year, the joint training program for teachers and educational specialists at Stuttgart’s all-day elementary school has been offered free of charge to participants by the state capital’s School Administration Office, which was developed in cooperation and networking with the Youth Welfare Office, the Stuttgart Education Partnership Department, other municipal offices, the State Education Authority, the Centre for School Quality and Teacher Training (ZSL), representatives of independent youth welfare organizations as providers in Stuttgart’s all-day schools and external cooperation partners.

In doing so, the school administration office is implementing the mandate of the municipal council, which decided to develop the multi-professional training program as one of several measures for the further development of all-day education in the course of the first quality analysis of Stuttgart’s all-day elementary school. This takes into account the clearly formulated wish for joint further training in multi-professional teams as part of the quality analysis.

The training program for the respective school year is sent to every Stuttgart all-day elementary school in advance. It is possible to register for school-specific in-house training courses for all employees at the school location (including on the topic of “Child protection at school”) as well as for a variety of cross-school tandem training courses, in which teams of two educational specialists and teachers take part.

The contact person at the school administration office is  Stefanie Schultze.

Pupil house

Pupil houses have been set up as a mandatory preliminary stage to all-day school. They offer a demand-oriented range of all-day places during school hours. Analogous to the after-school care hours, care is offered from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the earliest. During the vacations, full-day care can also be booked in the same way as after-school care hours. The standards regarding staffing, lunch and pedagogical work are based on those of the after-school care centers. Pupil houses are chargeable for the parents

The Werkrealschule comprises grades 5 to 10 and leads to the intermediate school leaving certificate (Werkrealschulabschluss) after six years. It also offers the opportunity to obtain the Hauptschulabschluss at the end of grade 9 or grade 10.

The students receive a basic and extended general education. With a strong vocational profile and intensive individual support in all grades, they are given the best possible start to a subsequent school or vocational career. The Werkrealschule particularly promotes practical talents, inclinations and achievements without neglecting the theoretical background.

At a Realschule, in addition to the Mittlere Bildungsabschluss (“Mittlere Reife”), students can also earn the Hauptschulabschluss at the end of grade 9. In particular, students at the Realschule are prepared for a successful transition to the world of work or to the vocational high school.

Grades in grades 5 and 6 (orientation level) are based exclusively on the intermediate level, which leads to the Realschule certificate. Students with weaker performance can receive additional support. At the end of grade 5, there is no promotion decision. At the end of grades 6, 7 and 8, a decision is made on the basis of grades whether the student will continue at the intermediate level leading to the Realschulabschluss or the basic level leading to the Hauptschulabschluss. Starting in grade 7, students choose one of three elective subjects: technology or everyday culture, nutrition and social studies (AES), or French.

In the community school, teaching is based on the educational standards of the Hauptschule, Realschule and Gymnasium. Community schools are schools of prolonged joint learning. Instruction takes place in learning groups that are not separated according to educational standards. In grades 8 and 9, each student is given detailed school career counseling, at the end of which a decision is made about the desired school-leaving qualification. The degrees awarded at a community school correspond to those that can be earned at Hauptschulen, Werkrealschulen, Realschulen or Gymnasien.

The core of the community school is the lower secondary level from grades 5 to 10, but it can also include an elementary school and an upper secondary school (upper secondary level). The learning program is organized as a three- to four-day all-day school. The school career at a community school runs without non-promotion. Instead of grades, there are differentiated assessments of the students’ individual development and performance levels.

At a Gymnasium, students acquire an in-depth general education and, after the 12th or 13th grade, receive the general university entrance qualification (Abitur), which qualifies them for university studies. Several foreign languages, natural sciences and humanities as well as artistic and aesthetic education are the focal points of the program. Vocational and study orientation (BOGY) provide insights into the world of work and study. The profiles of the grammar schools vary widely.

All-day schools at secondary schools in Stuttgart take place in open, partially bound or bound form. In the open form, a permanent all-day operation is established at the school on at least four days. The organization of the all-day programs is under the cooperation and supervision of the school administration. Students who wish to participate in the all-day program must register. In the case of the partially restricted form, participation in the all-day program is obligatory for individual classes; in the case of the restricted all-day school, participation in the all-day program is obligatory for all classes.

The city of Stuttgart subsidizes lunch at schools that offer all-day programs, leaving a contribution of 3.50 euros per lunch. Many other schools offer lunch on their own. The costs can vary depending on the school.

After completing standard schooling, young people under the age of 18 must attend a secondary school or vocational school. This rule is intended to enable young people without a training place to receive vocational training. Information can be obtained from the registration office for Stuttgart’s vocational schools:

Vocational school for color and design
Leobener Street 97
70469 Stuttgart-Feuerbach
Ms. Keßler (mornings)
Telephone: + 49 711 216-60277
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