audecius/german-school-system

The German School System 2026/27

A machine-readable snapshot of the German school system for the 2026/27 school year: 16 federal states, 64 school types, 380 dated entries from 19 official sources, 2 grading systems, 65 final qualifications. Every dated entry is tagged with the role it concerns (225 student, 86 teacher, 69 exchange student). Generated 2026-06-26. Published by Audecius.

The Kultusministerkonferenz publishes the holiday calendar as PDFs — no CSV, no feed, no API, no breakdown by school type. This dataset is that material as structured data, with its own uncertainty recorded in every row.

The field that matters most: confidence

value	count	meaning
official	187	traceable to the named ministry or KMK source in source_url
typical	193	the pattern that normally holds — not confirmed for 2026/27

Five entries about the start of the school year (Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria) carry no date at all, because none was verifiable and none was inferred. Filter on confidence before treating any row as fact.

Columns (CSV, 380 rows)

region_code (ISO 3166-2), region, school_type_id, school_type, role, type, label_de, label_en, date, start_date, end_date, year, confidence, source_url.

type takes nine values: abitur_oral, abitur_written, conference, final_exam, grade_submission_deadline, holiday_break, registration_deadline, report_card_issue, school_year_start.

The full nested structure (grading systems, qualifications, recognition notes per school type) is in schulsystem-2026-27.json.

Other access points

• Landing page & docs: https://clarity.audecius.com/open
• REST API (no key): https://clarity.audecius.com/api/open/v1/school-systems
• GitHub: https://github.com/Audecius/audecius-open
• Archived, citable deposit: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22079881

Citation

@dataset{zinecker_2026_22079881,
  author    = {Zinecker, Moritz},
  title     = {The German School System 2026/27: School Types,
               Term Dates and Qualifications Across 16 Federal States},
  year      = 2026,
  publisher = {Audecius},
  version   = {1.0},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.22079881},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22079881}
}

The dataset describes the school system and contains no personal data. Corrections: support@audeciusofficial.com — the confidence field is never rounded up.