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Nuremberg, Germany · est. 1903 · State
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The Hans-Sachs-Gymnasium in Nuremberg is a Bavarian state Gymnasium with two tracks, science and technology (NTG) and languages (SG), plus a systematic bilingual English stream. By its own count the school is 123 years old; 929 students attend and 111 teachers work there. Teaching is in German; from grade 7 the bilingual stream adds history or geography lessons in English. For more than ten years the school has been part of the Cambridge International Schools network and, it says, is one of the few state schools in Germany where students can take the IGCSE: Cambridge materials are used in enrichment courses in grades 9-10, and volunteers sit IGCSE exams in English and Spanish (in 2024 also mathematics); in the upper grades the school prepares students for the C1 Advanced exam and hosts it on site. The school is a UNESCO-Projektschule, an Erasmus+ school, a MINT-freundliche Schule, a profile school for computer science and future technologies and a Schule ohne Rassismus (school without racism). Electives range from robotics, 3D printing and beekeeping to archery, hockey and theatre.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE · National programme
Languages of instruction
German
Languages taught
English, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian
About the fees Tuition is free: it is a state Gymnasium. Afternoon care is free too (with registration for at least two days); only lunches are paid. Costs for copies, workbooks, reading books and trips are charged to the family's school account.
Admissions Grade 5 registration is in early May: first an online form on the school website, then personal registration on the main registration day. Families bring the original transfer report (Übertrittszeugnis), the birth certificate (in German or with an international translation), for children without German citizenship proof of citizenship and, if applicable, of the current residence permit, and proof of measles vaccination. At registration families choose the track (science or languages) and the language sequence; one friend may be named for a shared class. For students who need support in the language of instruction, the school takes part in the Bavarian language support project. The main building is not yet barrier-free.
Stages and year groups Grades 5-13. A Gymnasium following the Bavarian curriculum (nine years): grades 5-10, upper grades 11-13 with the Abitur (Allgemeine Hochschulreife). Tracks: science and technology (NTG: extra physics and chemistry from grade 8, computer science from grade 9; languages English and Latin or English and French) and languages (SG: Spanish as third language from grade 8; English, Latin or French, Spanish). Systematic bilingual stream: an extra English lesson in grades 5-6 and from grade 7 additional history or geography lessons in English. Cambridge International: in grades 9 and 10 the enrichment courses (Pluskurse) use Cambridge materials, and IGCSE exams are optional in grades 9-11 - in 2025 in English and Spanish, in 2024 in English, Spanish or mathematics; in the upper grades there is a weekly preparation course for the C1 Advanced language exam. The school also offers the DELF exam in French.
Address Löbleinstraße 10, 90409 Nürnberg
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeIts core is a Bavarian Gymnasium leading to the Abitur; enhanced courses use Cambridge materials, and Cambridge IGCSE exams are optional (English and Spanish in 2025).
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CambridgeCambridge International Education
Part of the University of Cambridge. It allows a school to teach the Cambridge programmes and to enter pupils for the exams. There are four stages and they are authorised separately: primary, lower secondary, IGCSE and A Level. If the stages are known they are named in the line below; if that line is missing, the school does not publish them, and the Cambridge registry does not show stages either - it gives only the name of the centre, the country and whether private candidates are accepted. Cambridge calls what it does registration rather than accreditation, and the network holds about ten thousand schools.
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: IGCSE (ages 14-16). IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →National programme
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
Exam results IGCSE 2025: 30 students in grades 9-11 took the English exam; grades were 3 A*, 7 A, 10 B and 8 C. IGCSE 2024: 13 students took English, Spanish or mathematics, with grades including 4 A and 4 B. The school does not publish Abitur results.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Clubs and activities: 3D-Druck & CAD (3D printing and CAD) · Band und Orchester (band and orchestra) · Bogenschießen (archery) · Choir · Football · Handball · Hockey · Imkerei (beekeeping) · Informatiklabor (computer science lab) · Italienisch (Italian) · Mathleten (maths club) · Planspiel Börse (stock market game) · Rhythmische Sportgymnastik (rhythmic gymnastics) · Robotik (robotics) · Schulgarten (school garden) · Schulsanitätsdienst (school first aiders) · Stop-Motion · Streitschlichter (student conflict mediators) · Theater (theatre) · UNESCO · Veranstaltungstechnik (event technology)
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
✓Number of teachers111
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
The school has 111 teachers and hosts a training seminar for trainee teachers. There is a native English language assistant. The school psychologist is one of the school's teachers (Latin, Italian, psychology, ethics), and a social pedagogue works separately.
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
✓Counsellor
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
The school has a school psychologist with phone and in-person consultation hours and a social pedagogue running group prevention: violence and bullying, conflicts, health and addiction, media, prevention of sexualised violence. The prevention programme by grade includes workshops on cyberbullying, violence (with the police), exam anxiety, eating disorders and mental illness. Class councils have run for more than ten years; there are student peer mediators, tutors and a student first aid service.
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Academics and programmes (16%)72 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data80 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data65 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data70 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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