General information
Legal basis
Legal bases in the respective valid version are:
- School law of the state of Saxony-Anhalt
- Ordinance on lump-sum guest school fees
- Statutes on school transportation in the Landkreis Börde
General education
- Ordinance on the formation of initial classes and admission to general-education schools
- Ordinance on transitions between school types in lower secondary education
- Circular of the MB "Admission to secondary schools" including
- Schedule for admission to secondary schools
- Circulars of the MK "Teaching organization at ... (respective school form)" and
- Statutes defining the school districts and school catchment areas for general education schools sponsored by the Landkreis Börde (Official Gazette of the Landkreis Börde)
Vocational education
- Ordinance on school development planning 2014 incl. amendment ordinance
- Regulation on class formation and admission to vocational schools
- Supplementary regulations on class formation at vocational schools
- Regulation on vocational schools
- Ordinance on the vocational preparation year
- Regional and supra-regional specialized classes at vocational schools
- Formation of mixed classes without necessary external differentiation at vocational schools
- Guideline on the granting of subsidies for the promotion of school construction
Structure of the school system
School boards and school authorities
The school authorities and the school boards are responsible for the education of the children in the Landkreis Börde. School boards are the counties and independent cities. The school boards have to provide the school offer and the school facilities to the necessary extent, to equip them with the necessary equipment and to maintain them properly as well as to abolish or restrict them under consideration of the goals of the school development planning (§ 64 School Law Saxony-Anhalt). The tasks of the school authority are e.g. the provision of the material conditions for the execution of the instruction, the school development planning, the organization of the pupil transportation, questions of the school route security, the conclusion of the legal pupil insurance (accident, damage to property and liability) and regulation of the admission at secondary schools (under circumstances lottery).
Landkreis Börde
Amt für Bildung
Bornsche Str. 2
39340 Haldensleben
Phone: +49 3904 7240-1411
Fax: +49 3904 7240-51420
E-Mail: schulen-kultur@landkreis-boerde.de
The state has supervision over the entire school system. State school supervision includes the planning, ordering and development of the school system.
The school authorities are
The State Education Authority is responsible for legal, administrative and technical supervision, and advises and supports schools in their further development. This is also where decisions are made on applications for schooling outside the school district or for special educational support/common instruction.
Start, duration and end of compulsory education
Attendance at school is compulsory for all children and young people living in the state of Saxony-Anhalt (compulsory education). All children who have reached the age of six by June 30 become obligated to attend school at the beginning of the following school year.
Information on elementary school
Compulsory schooling lasts for 12 years after it begins. All school-age children initially attend schools at the primary level (elementary school, special school) and the lower secondary level (secondary school, community school, grammar school, special school, comprehensive school) for at least 9 years. If they do not subsequently attend general education schools (secondary school, community school, grammar school, special school, comprehensive school), they fulfill their compulsory education by attending a vocational school. à Link to § 37 and § 40 of the School Act. A person obliged to attend school who does not fulfill his or her compulsory education can be brought to school even against his or her will if other pedagogical means, in particular personal counseling, advice to the parents, the trainer and the employer of the person obliged to attend school as well as the involvement of the competent youth welfare office, have been unsuccessful. à Link to §§ 42 to 44a School Act
School districts and school catchment areas