Magdeburg/Wiesbaden (dpa/sa) – The proportion of pupils who repeat a class is above average in Saxony-Anhalt. In the 2021/22 school year, that was 3.4 percent, as the Federal Statistical Office announced on Monday in Wiesbaden. Only Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania was even higher at 5.0 percent. The national average was given as 2.4 percent. In the 2019/20 school year, the rate in Saxony-Anhalt was 2.6 percent and fell to 2.3 percent in the 2020/21 school year.
As the statisticians also reported, the number of repeaters has recently increased again in all federal states except Bremen. “After changes to transfer regulations in the first school year after the outbreak of the corona pandemic, significantly more children and young people repeated a grade in the 2021/2022 school year,” it said. According to the information, the rate of those who remained seated increased nationwide from 1.4 percent in the 2020/2021 school year to 2.4 percent in the past school year. For comparison: In the 2019/2020 school year, when the corona-related transfer rules had not yet come into effect, the rate was 2.3 percent.
In the course of the pandemic, special rules regarding transfers were introduced in many federal states due to the cancellation of classes or alternating and distance teaching. The transfer is regulated differently in the individual federal states.
