Overview

• A total of 9,274 out of 9,810 candidates passed the 2025 Hamburg Abitur, yielding a 94.5 percent pass rate with an overall average grade of 2.35 and 30.1 percent achieving a top score of 1.0
• In core written exams students averaged 3.14 in German, 2.72 in English, 2.93 in mathematics and 1.91 in French
• Full adoption of federal IQB-pool tasks drove science improvements of around 0.3 grade points, with biology at 2.81, chemistry at 2.31 and physics at 2.45
• School Senator Ksenija Bekeris attributed weaker German and math performance to growing language deficits and underscored the need for strengthened early support programmes
• CDU education spokesperson Birgit Stöver called the German and math results a “warning signal” accusing the government of failing to secure basic competencies over the past decade