Emden fights against school overfilling: solutions in sight?

Emden fights against school overfilling: solutions in sight?

In the city of Emden, those responsible have to deal with a pressing problem: overcrowded schools. The integrative comprehensive school (IGS) in particular faces major challenges that cannot be easily solved. The city is now planning to take care of this topic and has already announced that it will develop a catalog of measures to alleviate the difficulties.

Michael Groeneveld, the specialist service manager for schools in Emden, pointed out at the last meeting of the municipal school committee that the distribution of the students is not optimal. This leads to an overload of certain schools, which must change in the future. Groeneveld emphasizes that the Grüner Weg primary school in particular, the elementary school on Wall and the Cirksena elementary school reach its capacity limits. In these schools there are no important rooms for the students and the school management has to raise a lot of creativity to deal with the Situation. The city plans to develop new strategies immediately and to present politics.

Adjustment of the school districts and selection systems

One of the ideas thrown into the room concerns the adaptation of the school entrance districts of primary schools. In addition, a selection system for secondary schools could be introduced. The introduction of limited school places for students from the Aurich district is also under discussion. These options now appear necessary after the city had excluded a limitation a few months ago. This shows how pressing the situation in schools and that structural measures have to be packed immediately.

The situation on the Emder IGS is particularly problematic. Here the city has to deal with legal requirements: only five class trains are approved, and this frame is already fully exhausted. This means that no additional students can be accepted. The city has announced that a solution must be found because the number of students continuously increases.

other schools in stress

The Max Windmüller-Gymnasium is already a class train above the planned plan, while the Johannes-Althusius-Gymnasium even has one less than one class train this school year. Groeneveld makes it clear that a variety of factors leads to this overload. It is also clarified that the number of students is not necessarily related to the all -day offers. Rather, there are other reasons that bring the schools to their limits.

The situation in Emden shows an exciting picture of the current educational landscape, which is characterized by a significantly increased need for school places. School administrations, urban politics and parenthood now have to find solutions together to ensure the best possible education for the students without ignoring the existing framework. The success of these initiatives will be decisive in the coming months for the development of the quality of education in the city.