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Presscouncil City of Chemnitz
Pressrelease: 91

Education recommendation will be issued on 15 February

This year, pupils in year four will receive their educational recommendation from their primary school on 15 February. This is the prerequisite for registering the child at a secondary school. Registration at a secondary school or grammar school is possible until 8 March 2019. The admission letter will be issued by the respective school by 23 May.

The educational recommendation for the grammar school is issued if the average grade in maths, German and general studies is 2.0 or better. In addition, none of these three subjects may be graded "sufficient" or worse.


Since 2017, the educational recommendation has only been of an indicative nature. This means that parents can register their child at a grammar school of their choice until 8 March 2019, even without a grammar school recommendation. The children will then take part in a written assessment on 12 March 2019. The tasks are created centrally and take into account key subjects such as German, maths and general studies. In the period from 12 to 21 March 2019, a mandatory counselling interview will be held with parents at the grammar school of their choice. Failure to attend the counselling interview counts as a withdrawal of the application for admission to a grammar school.


A decision on possible admission is made in this counselling interview. In addition to the educational recommendation, the decision criteria are the last annual report, the last half-year report and the written performance assessment. If a recommendation is nevertheless made in favour of the secondary school, parents can inform the school in writing within a period of three weeks that they wish to maintain their enrolment at the grammar school. The headmaster then has the final authority to decide on the child's admission.


The following documents are required for enrolment:

  • Enrolment form (indication of second and third preference urgently required)
  • Copy of the half-year information
  • Original or certified copy of the child's birth certificate
  • Original of the educational recommendation


Please note:

Registration for the Albert-Schweitzer-Oberschule, Arno-Schreiter-Straße 1, takes place at the branch of the Albert-Schweitzer-Oberschule, Albert-Köhler-Straße 48.


The enrolment times for the individual schools can be found HERE.

Further information is available by dialling 115.