Education & training

The City of Zwickau offers a variety of excellent educational institutions where children and young people are supported.

Children and youth facilities (planned year 2017/2018)

Establishment Places
Independent and municipal daycare centres and after-school centres 50
of which
Inclusive facilities 8
Childminding facilities 8
Total capacity 6047
of which
Crèche 1133
Kindergarten 2598
After-school care 2277
Childminders 39
Children's and youth leisure facilities run by municipal and independent organisations 22
Children's and youth homes 3
SOS Children's Village 1

School and education system (school year 2018/2019)

School type Number Pupils
General education schools
Primary schools 12 2.717
Secondary/ high schools 6 1.650
Grammar schools 4 1.894
Special schools 5 533
Primary schools
Vocational training schools 7 2.341
Vocational schools 8 993
Vocational colleges 5 305
Vocational development schools 2 174
Technical colleges 1 138
Secondary/ high schools 1)
Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau - University of Applied Sciences 1 3.955
other
adult evening classes 1
Robert Schumann Conservatory 1 2.235

1) Winter semester 2018/2019

Source: State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony

Graduates/school leavers secondary schools at the end of the 2017/2018 school year

Qualification Number
total 463
without a lower secondary school certificate 45
mwith a lower secondary school certificate 23
with a secondary school certificate 206
with a general qualification for university entrance 189

Source: State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony

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