Primary Education
Parents looking for a suitable school for their child have a wide choice of elementary schools:
- State school. State schools do not charge tuition fees. The majority of pupils attend state schools in their neighbourhood. Schools in affluent areas tend to be better than those in deprived areas. Once children reach school age, many middle-class and working-class families move away from deprived areas.
- or, alternatively
- Waldorf School (206 schools in 2007)
- Montessori method school (272)
- Freie Alternativschule (Free Alternative Schools) (85)
- Protestant (63) or Catholic (114) parochial schools
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