Whether a child goes to high school or not depends heavily on the place of residence and biographical background of a student.

This is shown by the city's latest survey on the subject of changing schools.

According to the edition of "frankfurt statistik aktuell", which the Frankfurt citizens' office presented statistics and elections on Thursday, there were 6062 new fifth graders in Frankfurt in the 2020/2021 school year.

2328 of them without a history of immigration, 2732 with a migration background and 1002 with foreign citizenship.

Of the German children without a migration background who started secondary school in the 2020/21 school year, just 0.6 percent went to secondary school.

It was four times as many among children with a migration background and almost ten times as many among children without German citizenship.

Who does the Abitur

During the presentation of the figures, City Councilor Eileen O'Sullivan (Volt) expressed concern: "It is noticeable that significantly more children with a foreign or migrant background switch to secondary schools than children without such a background." Earlier and more intensive support for children with foreign backgrounds and a migration background is urgently needed.

Of all the children, 3,287 went to high school.

With 54.2 percent of all children, it was the most popular type of school.

Only 135 children from 15 districts switched to secondary school.

Most of them, 21.2 percent, are in Sindlingen.

Looking at the numbers for high school, the differences between the children become clear.

While more than two out of three students without a migrant background aim to graduate from high school, just under half of those with a migrant background do so.

Of the foreign children, on the other hand, only 38 percent switched to the highest form of school.

There are also big differences between the individual districts of Frankfurt.

When attending grammar school, there was the greatest spread between the districts: The proportion of new grammar school students was between 27.7 percent in Griesheim and 88.3 percent in Westend-Süd.

Integrated comprehensive schools very popular

The proportion of children with a migration background is also unevenly distributed across the city.

At 83.3 percent, Nieder-Erlenbach had the highest number of students without a migration background;

In Sossenheim the proportion of these children is much higher: only 7.6 percent of the children living there do not have a migrant background.

The proportion of foreign children is highest in the Bahnhofsviertel: 44.8 percent.

As far as the popularity of the integrated comprehensive school is concerned, an upward trend continued according to the new figures.

In three parts of the city, more than half of the children switched to the integrated grade: Niederursel, Eckenheim and Heddernheim.

With a total of 28.2 percent of students whose parents opted for comprehensive school, this type of school is the second most popular.