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More boys than girls had to repeat a grade
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The rate of grade repeaters fell slightly in the 2022/2023 school year.
According to the Federal Statistical Office in Wiesbaden on Tuesday, 2.3 percent of all students at general schools repeated a class in the last school year.
In the previous school year it was 2.4 percent.
The number of grade repeaters was subject to greater fluctuations due to the changed transfer regulations during the corona pandemic.
According to previous information, the rate of those who remained seated fell significantly to 1.4 percent nationwide in the 2020/2021 school year.
In the previous three school years, however, the rate had fluctuated between 2.3 and 2.4 percent.
In total, there were around 148,800 students in the 2022/2023 school year who either had not previously been transferred or repeated voluntarily.
That was 7,000 fewer than in the previous school year.
However, as the statisticians emphasized, there was no data for Saarland for the 2022/2023 school year.
There, 1,500 students repeated a grade level in the 2021/22 school year.
More than half - 56 percent - of repeaters in the 2022/2023 school year were male and 44 percent were female.
This means that 2.5 percent of students repeated a grade, but only two percent of female students repeated it.
According to the statistics, there were sometimes significant differences between the individual federal states.
The proportion was highest in Bavaria, where 4.1 percent of students repeated a grade in the 2022/2023 school year.
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania also had a comparatively high rate at 3.8 percent.
In contrast, the repeat rate was lowest in Berlin at 1.0 percent.
Schleswig-Holstein also had relatively low rates at 1.2 percent and Bremen at 1.4 percent.
The transfer is regulated differently in the individual federal states.
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