School Registration Process
Thank you for your interest in a school place at our bilingual primary and secondary school.
The first step in the application process is the non-binding registration via our online registration form, thereby signalling your interest in a school place. Should we be able to offer free school places in the corresponding grade, you can continue by entering all personal data and we will inform you by e-mail about the next step in the application process. Please note our admission criteria, which you will find under “Questions and Answers” below. If all school places are allocated, you will be informed immediately.
We will open the application form for the 2026/27 school year from 1 September 2025. In principle, we also allow admission during the current 2024/25 school year if there are linguistic and academic aptitudes. If we have free places available, we welcome high-performing and motivated students in all grades.
Our Admission Criteria
Academic requirements
As bilingual learning poses an additional challenge, all students are required to perform well in our main subjects (German, English, mathematics, science), and we also pay attention to work and social behaviour and, at secondary level, to the fulfilment of language requirements. The last 3 school reports are always decisive for our pre-selection. The following additional requirements also apply:
- A Gymnasium recommendation is required for admission to Year 7 (not required for students coming to Berlin directly from abroad)
- Admission to Year 11 is subject to the condition that the entitlement to transfer to the gymnasiale Oberstufe is achieved, which is regulated in the current version of the Berlin School Act and in the regulations on secondary level I (Sek I-VO § 48) and on the gymnasiale Oberstufe (VO-GO §§ 4 -6): Passing the examinations for the Mittlerer Schulabschluss (MSA) and an average grade of at least 3.0 in Year 10 (= MSA plus). We also pay attention to work and social behaviour and fulfilment of the foreign language requirements for the Abitur.
- We also offer free school places for Year 12 if the student has previously attended a Gymnasium or the 11th Year of an Integrierte Sekundarschule/Gemeinschaftsschule or a secondary school abroad.
Due to our focus areas, a willingness to learn languages – especially English and German – and an interest in STEM subjects (maths and natural sciences) are important.
Language requirements
All students must be able to speak German or English at a native level for admission to our school. In addition, the following applies to
– German-speaking students
- In Years 1 and 2: English language skills are not required.
- In Years 3 to 10: English was taught as the first foreign language at school.
- From Year 11: English was taught as a first foreign language at ER level at school and the performance was assessed with at least 11 grade points (= grade 2) (B2 level).
– English-speaking students
- In Years 1 and 2: German language skills are not required.
- In Years 3 and 4: previous German language skills increase the chances of admission.
- In Years 5 and 6: German language skills of at least B1 level are required.
- In Years 7 to 10: German language skills of at least B2 level are required.
- In Years 11 to 13: German language skills of at least C1 level are required.
Regulations regarding the 2nd foreign language from year 7 onwards
From Year 7, we teach Spanish as a second foreign language for all students. Spanish is continued from Year 11 and French is offered as a beginners’ course.
One of the following requirements must be met for admission to our secondary school:
- The students have learnt Spanish from Year 7 and continue to do so with us.
OR
- The students have learnt another foreign language (other than French) from Year 7 and take compulsory French from Year 11 to Year 13. OR
- If another language of origin has been recognised in Germany (must be neither German nor English), there is no obligation to take a second foreign language in order to be admitted to the Abitur.
Questions and answers regarding enrolment
Please fill out the online registration form here.
The enrolment period for the new school year always begins on the 1st of September of the preceding year.
There are still a few places in specific classes in the current school year. Please open our online registration form first. If we have free school places in the required year, you can proceed directly with entering your data and you will then receive an e-mail in response to your registration.
We will confirm receipt of your online registration by e-mail and send you our application form as an attachment if we can offer a school place or a place on our waiting list. Please return the completed application form and the required documents to us preferably scanned as a PDF by e-mail. As soon as we have received the complete application documents, we will check whether we can offer your child either trial days/a trial week or an appointment to a get to know each other.
- For new 1st grades in the 2025/26 school year: The application process has already been completed and all school and waiting list places have been allocated. We ask for your understanding that we cannot accept any further applications for the upcoming Year 1.
- For the new 7th grades in the school year 2025/26: Please register your child using the registration form. We will then send you an application form. After receiving the application documents, we will make a pre-selection and, if your child meets our admission requirements, invite him/her to trial days or an introductory appointment at our school. The number of places available varies from year to year and depends on how many of our students leave the school after Year 6. Please note that we only admit high-achieving students with a recommendation for the Gymnasium to our secondary school, and we will provide feedback on admission by June 2024 at the latest, when the state schools also send out their notifications.
- For Years 11 and 12 in the 2025/26 school year: Please register your child using the registration form. We will then send you an application form. After receiving the application documents, we will make a pre-selection and invite your child to a trial week or an introductory appointment at our school if they are suitable. The number of places allocated in Year 11 depends on how many of our students continue their studies in the upper secondary school. We can offer free school places in Year 12. Please note that admission to the gymnasiale Oberstufe will only be granted if all the requirements of the Berlin school inspectorate are met. You can find more information here.
- For the current Years 1 to 11 in 2024/25 school year: Please register your child via the application form. If we have free places, you will be sent an application form. After reviewing the application documents received, we will make a preliminary selection and invite your child, if she/he meets the admission requirementsto to at least three trial days or to a trial week or an appointment to get to know each other. We will then decide whether your child will be admitted.
If we can offer you a school place, the last step is to sign the school contract with us.
In order to be admitted to our school, it is always necessary for us to get to know the student beforehand.
For our ” Firsties” in the coming school year, we organise a get-to-know-you appointment. Your child will spend a morning with teachers and educators from our school in a group with about 11 other children. Of course, our team is prepared for the fact that some children are shy or reserved with unfamiliar people and in unfamiliar surroundings. With patience and attention, we make the children feel comfortable and playfully carry out various individual and group activities. We are particularly interested in the physical and cognitive development, the social interaction in a group and the language level of your child. In the meantime, our school leadership and admissions team will hold a meeting with parents to discuss mutual expectations and wishes as well as to clarify any questions regarding admission and our concept. For the trial period, we charge a fee of 30 EUR per day. During this time, your child is insured at our school and can of course take part in lunch. For trial periods, absence from the school the student is currently attending will also be excused.
For applications for a school place in the classes already in progress, it is necessary for the children to complete trial days or, in most cases, a whole trial week with us. During this time, they visit our school like our own students and will also take short one-time tests on their current learning level in Mathematics, German and English. At the end of the week, we collect feedback from all teachers and educators on your child’s academic performance as well as her/his work and social behaviour.
For admission to Year 7, we also offer trial days/a trial week or a get-to-know-you appointment. During this trial visit, we spend time together with the applicants to gain a personal impression and also test their learning level in mathematics, German and English. We also invite parents to a get-to-know-you appointment for a joint conversation.
After the get-to-know appointment or at the end of the trial week, the head of school of the respective Year decides on admission.
The costs for the primary school (Years 1 to 6) consist of the tuition fee, the costs for the full-day care (only for Years 4 to 6), the annual joint fund, teaching materials and other costs such as school trips.
The costs for the secondary level I and II (Year 7 to 13) are made up of the school fees, the lunch costs (optional), the annual joint fund, teaching materials and other costs such as school trips.
Further information as well as a tuition calculator can be found here: Costs for the Gemeinschaftsschule.
We look forward to your online registration and are happy to answer any further questions you may have:
Platanus Schule Berlin
Frau Silke Ameti / Nadin Prüske-Strutz
Berliner Straße 12
13187 Berlin
Tel. +49 (0)30 / 49 00 48 80
Fax. +49 (0)30 / 49 00 48 829
E-Mail: vasb@cyngnahf-fpuhyr.qr