Friedrich-Ebert-Gymnasium (FEG) is a state grammar school of the city of Bonn with an international profile, founded in 1954. Teaching is in German under the North Rhine-Westphalia curriculum leading to the Abitur, with a strong focus on languages. From grade 5 students choose the German-French bilingual track (since 1970; history and geography in French, with the dual AbiBac qualification since 1990) or the German-English track with extra English and bilingual philosophy and history courses. The third language from grade 9 is Spanish or Latin. Since 1997 students can earn the IB Diploma alongside the Abitur in the two final years, with history, mathematics and one science additionally taught in English. The school says it is the only school in Germany where students can work towards three qualifications at once: the Abitur, the French baccalauréat (AbiBac) and the IB Diploma. International classes with German as a second language serve children who arrive without German. Tuition is free.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · DP · National programme
Languages of instruction
German, English
Languages taught
French, Spanish, Latin
About the fees Tuition is free: it is a city state grammar school. IB students pay 300 EUR at the start of the final year as the parents' share of the examination fees. After-school care for grades 5-6 (lunch and homework support until 16:00) costs 106 EUR per month from August 2026 plus 5 EUR per lunch.
Admissions Registration for grade 5 follows the city of Bonn procedure: counselling appointments at the school in late November and December, then submission of documents after the first-term report of grade 4 (form, reports from grades 3-4, the primary school's registration slip, birth certificate, measles vaccination record); decisions are sent at the same time as by the other city grammar schools. Transfers into grades 6-10 and the Oberstufe depend on available places and the subject combination; students from outside North Rhine-Westphalia need a placement decision from the school authority. The head of school admits students from abroad to grades 5-10, while placement in grades 11-13 and recognition of foreign reports are decided by the Bezirksregierung Köln. Children without sufficient German are placed in the international classes through the Bonn school office's advisory centre, not by the school. The IB is offered only together with the compulsory Abitur: native-like German and all Oberstufe requirements of the state are mandatory; six months before the Oberstufe students apply with their subject choices (English, history or economics, French or Spanish), usually with advanced English; teachers in grade 10 recommend strong students.
Stages and year groups Grades 5-13. North Rhine-Westphalia Gymnasium (G9): grades 5-10 (Sekundarstufe I), Oberstufe EF, Q1, Q2 (grades 11-13), Abitur. Tracks from grade 5: German-French bilingual (history from grade 7 and geography from grade 8 in French; in the Oberstufe the dual AbiBac, Abitur and baccalauréat) and German-English (extra English, bilingual modules from grade 8, optional philosophy and history courses in English). The IB Diploma Programme is taken in addition to the Abitur in the two final years (for exams from May 2027 in grades 12-13): history or economics, mathematics and physics, biology or chemistry additionally in English, plus Theory of Knowledge, the Extended Essay and CAS. IB subjects: German A Literature, English A Literature, English B, French B, Spanish B, Spanish ab initio, History, Economics, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics. The school also awards the CertiLingua label and offers the DELF, DELE and Cambridge English A2 Flyers certificates.
Address Ollenhauerstraße 5, 53113 Bonn
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · DP · authorised programmeThe school is listed in the IB register and runs the Diploma Programme. The IB track runs inside a German Gymnasium: in the upper grades students take the IB Diploma alongside the Abitur.
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IBInternational Baccalaureate
A Swiss non-profit, working since 1968. Its programmes are among the most widely recognised school programmes in the world. Authorisation is granted stage by stage, so a school with the final stage does not necessarily run the younger ones; which stages this school holds is set out in the line below.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run this programme and to award its certificate. This is a confirmation of the programme, not a judgement on the school as a whole. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. At this school: DP (ages 16-19). DP is the final stage, ages 16 to 19: six subjects plus a compulsory core of theory of knowledge, an extended essay and CAS. The diploma is accepted by universities all over the world, and in a number of countries it counts for admission on the same footing as the local leaving certificate.
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The state school programme of the country the school stands in: it is set by that country's ministry of education, which also licenses the school and awards the leaving certificate. That certificate is used for entry to local universities, and abroad it is matched to the local one.
What this means for this school. This entry does not count towards the score, and that is deliberate. Every lawful school in a country works to the national programme, so on its own it tells one school apart from no other - unlike the French, German or Russian programmes, which are carried abroad and confirmed by the register of their organisation. We show it because a parent needs to know what programme their child is taught and what certificate the child will get. Counting it would lift the whole ranking at once and still tell nobody apart.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
The school publishes nothing about where its leavers go: no share going on to university, no exam results, no list of universities.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
✓Sports hall
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field
Clubs and activities: Juniororchester (junior orchestra) · Phönixorchester (orchestra) · Unterstufenchor Firevoices (lower school choir) · Mittelstufenchor Songbirds (middle school choir) · FEG-Oberstufenchor (senior choir) · Band AG (school band club) · Keyboard AG (keyboard club) · Garten-AG (garden club) · Grafikdesign AG (graphic design club) · Kunst-AG (art club) · Game Club · DELF-AG (French DELF exam preparation) · Italienisch-AG (Italian club) · Cambridge AG (Cambridge English exam preparation) · Erasmus+ AG (international projects club) · FEG Medienscouts AG (media mentors club) · Informatik AG (computer science club) · Rechtskunde AG (law basics club) · Schulhund AG (school dog club) · Kraft- und Fitness-AG (strength and fitness club) · Schüler-Ruder-Club (student rowing club) · Volleyball AG (volleyball club) · Schulsanitätsdienst (school first aid service)
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
✓Teacher qualifications
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
What the listings show: Language teaching is supported by native-speaker assistants from Spain, France, the UK and the US who change every year; in the French track children with French as their first language are taught by native-speaker teachers.
The staff page names 124 teachers with their subjects. The school has teacher counsellors, an addiction prevention officer and trained student learning coaches.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
·Security staffnot stated on the website
·Access controlnot stated on the website
·Nurse or medical roomnot stated on the website
·Counsellornot stated on the website
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
The school has a team of teacher counsellors, conflict management with student mediators and an anti-bullying group, school social work, coaching in difficult life situations, an addiction prevention officer, a media prevention programme and a trained student first aid service from grade 9; the school has a child protection concept (Schutzkonzept). Where needed the school connects families with the Bonn school psychology service and family counselling centre.
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Academics and programmes (16%)82 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data60 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data70 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 "Scored on disclosed data" stands where we count only what the school has written about itself on its own site: exams and destinations, safety and wellbeing, teaching staff, facilities, clubs and activities. A low score here means the school does not write about this, not that the school does not have it: a school with good security and a sparse site will score low. A school can fill in its profile, and the score will be counted again.
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Bonn, Germany · est. 1954 · State