Overview
- The Berlin Senate Department for Education published seventh-grade registration numbers on June 26, making capacities and first-choice counts for roughly 227–235 public secondary schools publicly available.
- Places for incoming seventh-graders have been allocated using the published Anmeldedaten and citywide rankings of most- and least-popular Gymnasien, Sekundar- and Gemeinschaftsschulen were released by local media.
- School leaders and the Senate responded to strong demand by opening numerous Zusatzklassen (extra classes) across Berlin to increase intake capacity.
- Demand concentrated locally, most starkly in Pankow where three schools rank among the city's most sought-after and hundreds of applicants were rejected despite the added classes.
- Longstanding popular schools such as the Max-Beckmann-Schule in Reinickendorf again drew heavy interest, a pattern that raises questions about longer-term capacity planning, transport and family logistics for oversubscribed districts.