The document summarizes school administration in the District of Kaiserslautern, Germany. It outlines that the district is responsible for several public schools including two high schools, three vocational schools, and two special needs schools. It also shares costs for other schools in cooperation with neighboring municipalities based on student enrollment. In total, there are over 30 primary schools, middle schools, comprehensive schools, and special needs schools in the district serving around 10,000 students during the 2013-2014 school year.

1. School Administration
in the District of Kaiserslautern

2. Kreisverwaltung Kaiserslautern
67657 Kaiserlautern
Telefon 0631/7105-0
Fax 0631/7105-474Lauterstr. 8
www.kaiserslautern-kreis.de
The District of Kaiserslautern

3. Population and territory structure
• The District of Kaiserslautern has about 100,000 inhabitants and
is located in the western Palatinate in the district of
Rheinhessen-Pfalz (state of Rhineland-Palatinate).
• He encloses with its area the university town of Kaiserslautern
(also approximately 100,000 inhabitants), which has its own
school administration for your schools.
• The district consists of 9 unitary councils. These 9 unitary
councils consist of 49 local municipalities.
• The maximum extent from west to east is over 43 km from north
to south it is just 32 km. The total area is approximately 640
km².

4. Legal situation
• In Germany, the 16 “Bundesländer” are responsible for the
legislation in the area of education. The basic provisions of the​​
school administration in Rhineland-Palatinate are governed by the
education law.
• Into this the country is fixed that Rhineland-Palatinate will cover
the costs for teachers and other educational staff in schools.

5. Legal situation
• The local education authorities (usually these are associated
municipalities, cities and counties) are responsible for the
provision of administrative and support staff. Furthermore, for the
external staff, for the material needs, the school building, the
school facilities and the associated costs.
• In addition, the local education authorities can meet with each
other to make agreements relating to the payment of costs if a
larger number of students from their area is taught in schools in
the neighboring municipality.

6. The education law in Rhineland-Palatinate
available for the following types of schools
• primary school
• Realschule plus in cooperative or integrative form
• Realschule plus with organizationally connected specialized
secondary school (FOS)
• high school
• comprehensive school
• vocational school
• evening high school
• college
• special school

7. In the District of Kaiserslautern are:
• 30 primary schools
• 1 private middle school
• 4 middle schools plus
• 3 integrated comprehensive schools
• 2 high schools
• 3 vocational schools
• 2 special schools with a focus on learning
• 1 special education school with a focus on motoric skills
• 1 Waldorf education school

8. Grundschule Realschule Integrierte Gesamtschule Gymnasium Berufsbildende Schule
Realschule plus Waldorfschule Förderschule
Schulen im Landkreis Kaiserslautern, Schuljahr 2013/14
Landkreis Kusel
Landkreis Südwestpfalz
Neustadt
Zweibrücken
Landkreis Kircheimbolanden
Saarland
Landkreis Bad Kreuznach
Landkreis Bad Dürkheim
Landkreis Kusel

9. In the school year 2013/2014 in the District of
Kaiserslautern visit
• 3.560 students a primary school,
• 6.464 students a secondary school,
• 329 students a school for special education,
• 378 students the Waldorf Education school.

10. Education authorities
in the District of Kaiserslautern
Due to legal regulations, the district of Kaiserslautern is directly
responsible for the staff and material facilities (except for teaching
staff) and for the building and equipment and bares the costs for the
following schools:
• Sickingen-Gymnasium Landstuhl (High school)
• Gymnasium Ramstein-Miesenbach (High school)
• Berufsbildende Schule Landstuhl (Vocational school)
• Hans-Zulliger-Schule Enkenbach-Alsenborn (Special education)
• Jakob-Weber-Schule Landstuhl (Special education)

11. Notes to the schools
High schools Landstuhl and Ramstein-Miesenbach
• In high school Landstuhl students can can select as the first
compulsory foreign language English or French. From the 6th
grade
must be selected as a second compulsory foreign language
English, French or Latin.
• In the 9th
grade a third foreign language is offered and can be
chosen by students as an option.
• In addition, voluntary work groups in a range of subjects are
offered.
• In upper secondary II (MSS, from grade 11), students can choose
their basic and special subjects of a differentiated range of
subjects.

12. Notes to the schools
High schools Landstuhl and Ramstein-Miesenbach
• The schools are placed into 3-4 parallel classes, leading to Abitur
(higher education entrance qualification) in grade 13 and
secondary school leaving certificate after grade 10.
• Focus of educational work are under the quality program of the
schools intensive language support, training methods and social
learning.
• The first foreign language is English (Gymnasium Landstuhl), in
addition, the school offers bilingual education as a focus on a
subject.

13. Notes to the schools
Vocational School Landstuhl:
•This vocational school allows a differentiated educational opportunities
to acquire professional and inter-professional competencies and
provides upper secondary I and II, enabling entry into a skilled
occupation or in the secondary vocational or study-related education.
•The school also completes the acquired knowledge and skills in
secondary I and is cooperating with the dual training participants.

14. Notes to the schools
Schools with a program focusing on learning (special needs)
•Hans-Zulliger-Schule, Enkenbach-Alsenborn
•Jakob-Weber-Schule, Landstuhl
They provide students with difficulties in learning a special support.
Prerequisite for receiving a student is the diagnosis of a special
educational needs, which regular schools can not afford.
The schools are day schools in “offer form” (the parents decide if
they want this form). They teach grades 1 – 9. On a voluntary basis,
the grade 10 can be visited in Landstuhl.

15. Education authorities: Association
Members of the special-purpose associations are the district of
Kaiserslautern and the respective municipality in which the school is
located. Under an agreement with the Association of Municipalities
the District of KL contributes 75% of the cost for the following three
„Integrated Comprehensive Schools" (IGS):
• IGS Enkenbach-Alsenborn
• IGS Otterberg
• IGS „Am Nanstein“ Landstuhl

16. Integrated Comprehensive Schools
They are placed minimum into 3-4 parallel classes. The classes
are formed of children with different backgrounds, talent and
inclination. So they continue the aim of learning together after the
time in the primary school.
From the grade 7 a performance differentiation in the core subjects
(English, German, mathematics) and a tendency differentiation
begins (different offers: starting with the second foreign language
and other subjects such as computers, sports, work theory, etc.).
Another differentiation is made for the natural sciences from the 9th
grade level.

17. Integrated Comprehensive Schools
• The degrees are equivalent to the degrees:
- of the vocational maturity after grade 9
- of the qualified secondary degree after grade 10
(Secondary school)
- of the authorization to continue in the upper secondary level.
• Comprehensive schools with upper secondary level lead to
college entrance and the Abitur (higher education entrance
qualification).

18. Cost sharing of the
District of Kaiserslautern
Due to existing agreements, the district participates in the costs of
these schools (in proportion of students from the district to the total
number of students):
Local education authorities City of Kaiserslautern
Special education school with focus on “holistic impairment“
Kaiserslautern
For students who require extensive special educational assistance in all
areas of development (intellectual development, perception, motoric
skills, language and social development).
Special education school with focus on “language“ Kaiserslautern
For students who need a special educational assistance in the area of
language, speech and communicative action.

19. Cost sharing of the
District of Kaiserslautern
Due to existing agreements, the district participates in the costs of
these schools (in proportion of students from the district to the total
number of students):
Local education authorities City of Kaiserslautern
Vocational school “Technic” Kaiserslautern
Apprenticeships extend to various professions in the fields of
engineering, computer science and electronics.
Vocational school “Economy and Management” Kaiserslautern
The vocational school is the largest business school in the western
Palatinate.

20. Cost sharing of the
District of Kaiserslautern
In addition, the district of Kaiserslautern participate in the costs of the
private special education school with a focus on "motoric development",
Landstuhl. The cost sharing is based on the number of children out of the
district of Kaiserslautern, going to the school, and the days of care.
Private education authorities Reha Westpfalz (Rehabilitation)
Students with different skills of their physical, mental and social
development are encouraged. The school has set itself the aim of
reaching a wide potential integration into society for their students.

21. Cost sharing of the
District of Kaiserslautern
Due to legal requirements, the district is involved in these schools with
investment grants of at least 10% of the approved construction costs.
School authorities are usually the associated municipalities in the
District of Kaiserslautern:
Primary schools: In the district are 30 primary schools with grades 1-4.
Middle schools plus (secondary schools):
Bruchmühlbach-Miesau, Queidersbach, Ramstein-Miesenbach, Weilerbach;
•At secondary schools plus the degree of "professional maturity" (after
grade 9) and the ”qualified lower secondary degree” (after grade 10) can be
achieved.
•It is possible to set up in the middle schools plus specialized secondary
schools. Here the students can achieve the college entrance after the 10th
grade in a two-year training course.