Middle Schools (1911-1939)
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page 1 of 1 Middle Schools Year Schools (a) Classes Teachers Students Students per Class Students per Teacher Students per 1,000 Residents (b) 1911 2,049 -- 12,065 354,054 -- 29.3 5 1921/22 1,743 12,646 12,855 329,344 26 26.6 5 1926/27 1,550 -- 12,195 259,300 -- 21.3 4 1930/31 1,472 9,288 11,517 229,671 24.7 19.9 4 1939 (c) 1,207 8,220 8,797 259,417 31.6 29.5 4 (a) Public and private middle schools. Middle schools are institutions that go beyond elementary education but are not considered secondary schools. Their curriculum usually includes instruction in at least one foreign language. It is a nine-year school that begins at the age for compulsory schooling. (b) Population of the Reich at the midpoint of the (previous) year. (c) Based on the borders as of December 31, 1937; school data as of May 25, 1939. Source of original German table: Sozialgeschichtliches Arbeitsbuch, Volume III, Materialien zur Statistik des Deutschen Reiches 1914-1945, edited by Dietmar Petzina, Werner Abelshauser, and Anselm Faust. Munich: Verlag C.H. Beck, 1978, p. 166. Translation: Fred Reuss
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