Phorms Campus Hamburg is a private German-English all-day school in Hammerbrook in central Hamburg: daycare from 12 months, a primary school and a Gymnasium up to the Abitur on one campus. The campus was founded in the 2008-2009 school year; the primary school and Gymnasium are state-recognised as Ersatzschulen and follow the Hamburg curricula, and the first students earned the Abitur in 2020. Teachers teach in their native language, German or English, and in the Gymnasium the language of a subject changes every one or two years; the curricula also draw on Cambridge Primary and Cambridge Secondary. About 330 children attend the primary school and about 200 the Gymnasium, from 45 countries. Tuition is a single, relatively low fee, and parents are asked to join the support association with a contribution based on income.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $2 824 a year
250 EUR a month
The year is counted as ten payments: the school does not say how many payments it takes.
Programmes
Cambridge · Primary, Lower Secondary · National programme
Admits from
1 year · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
German, English
Languages taught
Spanish, French
Students
about 330 children in the primary school and about 200 in the Gymnasium, plus up to 155 daycare places
Class size
small classes; two educators per class in the primary school
About the fees Tuition in the primary school and Gymnasium is 250 EUR a month per child, 12 times a year; for family incomes below 40000 EUR gross it is 50 EUR on application. Sibling discounts are 25% for the second child, 50% for the third and 75% for the fourth. The school asks all parents to join the support association (Förderverein): the contribution in the 2026-2027 school year is 0.325% of annual family income from two years before, per month, 0.315% in the Reception group, and 128 EUR a month in daycare before Reception; daycare places are paid with the city's Kita-Gutschein voucher.
Admissions Registration is online, with no fixed deadline and admission during the year when places are free. For grade 1 English is not required, but the child must speak at least one of the two languages fluently; future first graders are invited to a PlayDate, and from grade 2 to a trial day; selection considers siblings, transfers from other Phorms schools, language background and gender balance. The Gymnasium requires a Gymnasium recommendation and good or very good grades in German, mathematics and general studies, followed by two trial days. Children with gaps in German or English get separate language lessons. Families living abroad can use an alternative admissions procedure.
Stages and year groups Kita PhorMinis: nursery, kindergarten groups and the Reception pre-school group; Grundschule grades 1-4 following the Hamburg curriculum plus the Cambridge International Primary Programme; Gymnasium grades 5-12 (eight-year Gymnasium), with Hamburg's central written assessment in grade 10, leading to the Abitur (allgemeine Hochschulreife). The school says its Gymnasium curricula are based on the Cambridge Secondary Frameworks and include modified Cambridge content, but it does not name any Cambridge International exams; from grade 10 there is preparation for the Cambridge English C1 Advanced and C2 Proficiency language exams, and the school is an official Cambridge English Preparation Centre.
Address Wendenstraße 35-43, 20097 Hamburg
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · Primary, Lower Secondary · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge Primary, Cambridge Lower Secondary.
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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: Primary (ages 5-11), Lower Secondary (ages 11-14). Primary is the primary stage, ages 5 to 11: English, mathematics and science to Cambridge syllabuses. At the end of the stage a school may run the optional Checkpoint test, which is marked in Cambridge. Lower Secondary is the middle stage, ages 11 to 14, with the same optional Checkpoint test at the end.
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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
Exam results Abitur 2026: class average 1.74 against a provisional Hamburg average of 2.34. The school also mentions consistently excellent Cambridge English exam results, without figures.
Where leavers go: Hamburg University of Technology
The school says several former students study at the Hamburg University of Technology, with which it cooperates through the NachwuchsCampus programme; it names no other universities.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Makerspace
Clubs and activities: Coding Lab · Hacker School · Tennis · Filmclub (film club) · American Sports Day · Känguru der Mathematik (maths competition) · Heureka (science competition) · Vorlesewettbewerb (reading aloud competition)
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
✓Students per teacher or class sizein the key facts above
Teachers and educators are native speakers of German or English, described by the school as experienced and highly qualified; teaching assistants work in the primary school, there is a support programme and a gifted programme, and the school works with the school psychology service and a specialist for gifted students.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
Reviews
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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 data55 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data60 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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