School

Start of compulsory education

All children born between 02.10.2019 and 01.10.2020 will be required to attend school in the 2026/2027 school year and must be enrolled. The registration process for school enrollment takes place at Wolfsburg elementary school 1.5 years before school enrollment.

You will receive a letter from the school division in January before registration with the registration form and a digital flyer with the registration times of the individual schools for your school-age children.

Some schools ask you to make an appointment, others can only accept your registration on certain days. Please note the symbols of the individual schools in the flyer.

You can also register at your preferred school in Wolfsburg by post during this period.

• 12.05.2025 - 16.05.2025, 12:00 noon

Please note that documents handed in or posted after 12:00 noon on 16.05.2025 cannot be considered.

• Freie Waldorfschule e. V.: Registrations are possible all year round via the school office.
• Neue Schule Wolfsburg: Information on the homepage - Registration at the beginning of 2026

Please observe the current regulations and hygiene measures at the time of registration. Should there be any changes to the registration procedure or important information to be observed, you will find all the information on the homepage of your preferred school or on the website of the city of Wolfsburg.

We will provide you with a current flyer with the respective registration times here as soon as possible.

General information about registration for class 5

After the fourth grade, your child will attend the fifth grade of a secondary school. This transition is an important step in life. We therefore recommend that you find out about the individual profiles and options of all schools. In Wolfsburg, the secondary schools are predominantly public, i.e. run by the city. There are also independent schools. A wide range of open and partially integrated all-day schools, school profiles and individual learning opportunities give your children the chance of a self-determined life and a good start to their careers.

A city-wide school district applies to secondary schools. This means that if you live in Wolfsburg, you are free to choose a school for your child. However, due to rising pupil numbers, some schools may have more applications than places available. This may affect some elementary school as well as grammar schools, comprehensive schools and secondary schools. At these schools, lottery procedures must be carried out. Due to the lottery procedures, it may happen that your child does not get a place at the first chosen school. In the past, however, this has mainly affected pupils from out of town. Nevertheless, it is advisable to think about an alternative school as a precaution.

The city of Wolfsburg provides sufficient capacity for each type of school throughout the city.

When registering at the secondary school, the original 4th grade report card must be submitted. This will remain with the school until written confirmation of admission. Important: Please also bring your birth certificate and proof of measles protection with you when registering. It is not possible to register at several schools at the same time.

The registration days for secondary schools for the 2025/26 school year can be found in the following overview:

Contact

School counseling of the school division

Phone: 05361 28-1129
E-mail to the school counseling

Videos on registration and the lottery procedure at secondary schools

Admission of out-of-town students

The city of Wolfsburg welcomes students from neighboring districts and cities!

Students who do not live in Wolfsburg have the opportunity to enroll at a school within the city of Wolfsburg under certain conditions.

It may happen that some schools have more registrations than school places available. This may affect some elementary school, grammar schools, comprehensive schools and secondary schools. In this case, lottery procedures have to be carried out at these schools. This may mean that students from outside the region do not receive a place at the first school selected. It is therefore advisable to think about an alternative school as a precaution.

Pupils from the districts of Gifhorn and Helmstedt who wish to enroll at a secondary school in Wolfsburg

The city of Wolfsburg and the districts of Gifhorn and Helmstedt have agreed on options for pupils from certain districts of Gifhorn and Helmstedt to attend a Wolfsburg secondary school. More information can be found in the respective flyer.

Pupils who wish to attend an elementary school or who do not live in the district of Gifhorn or Helmstedt.

In order to register at an elementary or secondary school in Wolfsburg, an application for an exemption must be submitted. You can obtain the necessary application from the school responsible for your child in the school district of your district or city.

Contact

City of Wolfsburg
School Division
Porschestraße 74, 3rd upper floor
38440 Wolfsburg

School counseling
Phone: 05361 28-1129
E-Mail to the school counseling

Enrollment
Phone: 05361 28-1696
E-Mail to Team Enrollment

You can't find answers to your questions on our homepage or you need further information? Please contact the school advisory service of the city of Wolfsburg.

Opening hours

Monday - Tuesday. 08:30 - 12:30
Thursday. 10:00 - 17:30
Friday. 08:30 - 12:00 and by appointment

Contact

Porschestrasse 74,
38440 Wolfsburg
Phone: 05361 28-1129
E-Mail to the school counseling

Safe way to school

Since 1981, a working group made up of representatives from the administration, the police and the city parents' council has been ensuring safe routes to school in the city of Wolfsburg. School route plans showing the recommended route to school have been drawn up for each elementary school.

School transport

The City of Wolfsburg is responsible for the transportation of school-age students who are resident or ordinarily resident in Wolfsburg.

In principle, a distinction is made between transport on regular services (collective school season ticket) and transport for impaired pupils on exempted school transport.

You can find all the bases for entitlement to transportation in the following statutes:

Foreign languages

In addition to language education integrated into everyday life and the further development of the first language, children and young people also learn foreign languages at school. Germany as well as all other members of the European Union have committed themselves to the goal of trilingualism, i.e. in addition to the main language of that country, all young people must learn two other languages.

English is the first compulsory foreign language in Lower Saxony and is therefore offered at all elementary school from the 3rd grade onwards (with the exception of Peter-Pan-Schule). At many elementary schools in Wolfsburg, however, English is already taught from the 1st grade. Other foreign languages offered at elementary schools are Italian, Spanish, Russian and French.

At all secondary schools (with the exception of Peter-Pan-Schule), English is taught from the 5th grade. In addition, foreign languages are offered in Spanish, French, Latin, Italian, Russian and Chinese.

Bilingual profiles

Some schools offer bilingual profiles in which one subject is taught predominantly in a foreign language. Wolfsburg's elementary schools offer bilingual instruction in English, Spanish and Italian. At secondary schools, bilingual profiles can be chosen with English and Italian as the languages of instruction.

Language of origin teaching

Bi- or multilingualism has long been a reality for many students in Wolfsburg. It is both a special qualification and an important component of identity and belonging. In order to maintain and expand the bilingualism or multilingualism of these students, Wolfsburg schools offer programs to promote their language of origin.

Early Birds Project - a bilingual language project in kindergarten and school

The Early Birds project initiated by Prof. Dr. Hahn offers children the possibility of a continuous bilingual language program. They can start this as kindergarten children at the Edith Stein daycare center and continue it as elementary school students and as high school students at the Catholic Eichendorff School as well as at the Käferschule and the Ratsgymnasium. The children learn the respective language through "immersion" and listening to the language by native speakers (immersion method).

International Baccalaureate at the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium

Bilingual education has been offered at Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium (ASG) since 2004 and in March 2021, ASG was recognized as a candidate school for the IB Diploma Programme. ASG has now received certification and has been an official IB World School since the start of the 2023/24 school year. This means that the ASG is authorized to award the internationally recognized English-language IB Diploma in addition to the Lower Saxony Abitur (general higher education entrance qualification).

Further information can be found here: Website of the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium on the IB Diploma

City Student* Council (SSR)

The Wolfsburg City Pupils' Council is made up of all school representatives from the city's schools (except elementary school). This means that every school in the city has a voice in this body to help decide on local education policy affecting pupils and to help shape it to a certain extent.

The tasks and competencies of the City Pupils' Council are regulated in the Lower Saxony Education Act. As a supra-school body, the City Pupils' Council must be involved in school development planning and all important school policy matters - similar to the City Parents' Council. It represents the interests of pupils with regard to the co-design and improvement of the school environment.

The City Pupils' Council has two seats on the school committee. The City Pupils' Council is elected every two years.

This is the composition of the City Pupils' Council for the school years 2024/2025 to 2025/2026:

• 1st spokesperson: Curtis Krehl

• 2nd spokesperson: Julian Krell

• Assessors: Leon Wesa, Ole Schulze, Chimaobi Kirchberg, Nikoletta Geipel

Interested students who are not elected representatives of their own school are warmly welcomed and are welcome to contribute their ideas and opinions. The SSR's meetings take place regularly in Wolfsburg at the Stadtjugendring, Kleiststraße 33.

At the meetings, for example, it is also discussed how these representatives of the local student body can express themselves on relevant topics in the school committee and how they would like to actively contribute to the political process through their voting rights or in the form of their own submissions to this committee.

You can contact the SSR at any time by e-mail and ask when the next meeting will take place.

E-mail to the city student council

For further information, please contact the School Division:

Isabel Barnieck
Telephone: 05361-281077,
E-mail to Ms. Barnieck

City Parents' Council

The City Parents' Council is particularly involved in matters of school development planning, in all significant structural and organizational changes to schools, such as splitting, merging, dissolving and reorganizing, changes to school types and the introduction of school experiments.

The current composition of the Parents' Council for the 2024/2025 and 2025/2026 school years:

• 1st Chairperson: Bettina Daft
  
• Deputy Chairperson: Jessica Wirth
• Assessors: Martin Fricke, Sonja Brodt

The meetings usually take place every 3rd Tuesday of the month (except during the vacations) at 19:00 in the council meeting room of Wolfsburg Town Hall. They are generally open to the public so that schools that do not have the right to vote can also send their delegates.

E-mail to the city parents' council

For further information, please contact the Schools Division:

Isabel Barnieck
Telephone: 05361-281077
E-mail to Ms. Barnieck

Overview of all members

As a municipality, the city is responsible for many areas of daily life. But the city administration does not make all the decisions. Many political bodies work together to produce decisions for the benefit of the city and its citizens.

Several figures sit at the same table. The political bodies of the city of Wolfsburg are elected in local elections. The most important body of the city is the city council. However, there are also other bodies that prepare, discuss and help shape the political decision-making process in the city.

The school committee supports the council of the city of Wolfsburg in its work. It consists of council members, parent, student, teacher, employer and employee representatives.

The School Committee also serves as a platform for Wolfsburg's school community so that a proactive exchange between schools and politics can take place.

The school committee discusses matters relating to the school division, including the technical and financial planning of the budget as well as follow-up costs and reporting during the year.

For further information, please contact the school division secretary's office:

Phone: 05361 28-2883