Halle – In the grammar schools in Saxony-Anhalt, only three out of four tenth graders end up with the Abitur. This is shown by data from the State Statistical Office, which the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (Saturday edition) published in Halle evaluated. The summer 2021 Abitur class lost 1,542 students between the start of the tenth grade and the handing over of their certificates. That’s a loss of 25 percent. The majority of them were not admitted to the Abitur because they did not score enough points or failed the exams themselves. Others left the school of their own accord due to lack of success.
Regionally, the shrinkage is even higher. In the Altmark district of Salzwedel, 38 percent of the class left without a high school diploma, in the Salzland district 31 percent and in the Harz Mountains 29 percent. The State Ministry of Education left an MZ inquiry about the causes unanswered. Numbers like those researched by the MZ are “generally not commented on,” said a spokesman.
In total, 13,125 pupils left high school in Saxony-Anhalt in the past ten years after the start of the tenth grade without a high school diploma. Depending on their performance, most of them received either the extended secondary school certificate or the academic part of the advanced technical college entrance qualification. The direct transition to a university, to which the Abitur entitles, is closed to them.
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Original content from: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, transmitted by news aktuell
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