Fewer students wanted to register at the Holzkirchen Gymnasium this year than last year.
For the first time, the school did not have to turn anyone away because of this.
At the Realschule, on the other hand, more and more students with a Gymnasium qualification are registering.
Holzkirchen – A director breathes a sigh of relief: For the first time since the school started in 2014, no three-digit number has been registered for the 5th grade in the coming school year at the state grammar school in Holzkirchen.
99 girls and boys were registered.
For headmaster Axel Kisters, this is not a cause for concern, but rather a source of relief: "For the first time in the school's existence, we didn't have to turn anyone away."
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Holzkirchen Gymnasium
The number of registrations has always been around 120. The run on the new Holzkirchner high school quickly pushed the school to its limits.
She is already getting an extension for around 2.3 million euros between the gym and Erich-Kästner-Strasse.
At the beginning of the new school year, four more classrooms will be available there.
Last year, due to a lack of space, even schoolchildren from the directly neighboring communities of Holzkirchner, Warngau and Valley, had to be turned away. Only a few siblings were able to come.
Decisions that often caused tears.
"I'm glad we don't have to disappoint anyone this year," says Kisters, "these communities are part of our region." There were also a few registrations from border communities in the neighboring districts of Munich and Rosenheim - Sauerlach, Brunnthal, Feldkirchen-Westerham.
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Axel Kisters, director of the Holzkirchen high school
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Kisters cannot say what caused the decline.
A query at the elementary school, from which most of the fifth graders of the Holzkirchen state high school come, showed that the year there was unusually small.
However, this does not have to apply to all elementary schools.
It is possible that registrations at the secondary school have also increased.
"I don't measure the success of a school by the number of registrations anyway," says the director.
The situation this year gives him the opportunity to form smaller classes.
Even if arithmetically, with 99 children, three classes with a maximum of 33 students would be possible, Kisters prefers to divide the year into four classes with a smaller number of students.
“That gives us new educational opportunities.”
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Realschule Holzkirchen
Joachim Fischer, headmaster of the secondary school in Holzkirchen, is also satisfied with the registrations.
111 students will attend the new four fifth grades at his facility.
This corresponds almost exactly to the registrations of the two previous years, in which 110 students switched to the Realschule.
"That's ideal for us," says Fischer.
"We get manageable classes with around 27 students each."
Fischer sees a trend in the number of students with a right to grammar school who have enrolled in his Realschule: more than 60 percent of the new fifth graders should have been allowed to switch to grammar school.
For Fischer, a success of the permeability of the school system: “The parents say: 'After the 10th grade, all doors are still open to my child.
For example, they can switch to a technical college and acquire the general higher education entrance qualification.'” Many discovered this path.
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Joachim Fischer, director of the secondary school in Holzkirchen
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It is still unclear how many Ukrainian students will be in the fifth grade of the Realschule in the fall.
20 Ukrainians are currently visiting their welcome group.
They are looked after by five external teachers, including a retired high school teacher, a Ukrainian English teacher and teachers who have taught German as a foreign language.
On Fridays, the students sit in on regular classes.
"We have a very good program with which the children quickly overcome the language barrier," says Fischer.
However, it is not foreseeable whether Ukrainian students will switch to regular classes in September;
also because, depending on the course of the war, some of them could have returned to their homeland by then.
Even apart from the new registrations, Fischer is optimistic about the new school year.
The number of illnesses among teachers has decreased as the incidence of corona has fallen and normality is slowly finding its way into the school building.
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