Overview

• Baden‑Württemberg begins classes with 1,159 unfilled teacher posts after a software error exposed long‑overlooked vacancies, with the largest gaps in special education and further shortages at vocational and primary schools.
• Bavaria’s return to a nine‑year Gymnasium adds an extra year group across grades 5 to 13, while Baden‑Württemberg starts the stepwise reintroduction of G9 for lower grades.
• Bavaria expects about 1.76 million pupils this year, roughly 46,000 more than last year and including about 30,000 additional Gymnasium students, prompting temporary classrooms and expansion plans in some districts.
• Schools are holding schedules together with auxiliary staff and side‑entrants, including 133 additional non‑traditional teachers in the Munich district and primary teachers redeployed to cover lower Mittelschul classes.
• Curricular and pathway changes roll out with the new subject “Informatik und Medienbildung” in grades 5–6 and the abolition of the Werkrealschulabschluss, alongside an expansion of Sprachfit that targets 4,200 early‑language groups by 2027/28.