We are very happy that you would like to enrol your child at our secondary school. Here you can learn more about all steps in the admission process, including introductory days, placement, and tuition fees.
Please complete our online registration form. This is non-binding, and we will contact you directly after reviewing your information to discuss the next steps. We may request additional documents, such as certificates or reports.
After passing the entrance test, prospective students participate in two or three trial days to get to know us and our school routines. During this time, our teachers can form a better picture of the student’s academic and social skills.
For families living abroad, we offer an alternative admission process. Please contact us directly for more information.
If the admission process is successfully completed and our teachers approve the enrolment, we will send you an offer of a place via email. After accepting the offer, you will receive a school contract by post. Once we receive the signed contract, your child will be officially welcomed to our Phorms secondary school!
At any point in the school year, we can accept students into all year groups of our secondary school, provided there is a free place available. If the admission criteria are met, we are happy to organise the remaining steps of the admission process. «
At the end of primary school, a secondary school recommendation provides an assessment of whether your child is suitable for an academic secondary school.
To ensure your child successfully transitions to our secondary school, they should show good to very good performance in core subjects such as German, Mathematics, and Science.
We take your family’s social context into account: if siblings are already registered at Phorms Hamburg, we factor this into the admission process.
We are happy to facilitate transfers within the Phorms network for families who move between German cities.
We place great value on social and cultural diversity within our student body and maintain a balanced gender ratio.
Do you want to transfer during the school year? Admission to our secondary school depends on whether we have a place available for your desired enrolment date.
After signing the contract, we charge a one-time administration fee of €250 per child.
The monthly school fee is €250 per child. If multiple children from one family attend the Phorms Campus Hamburg, we offer the following discounts: 25% off for the second child, 50% for the third child, and 75% for the fourth child.
Families with a gross annual income of less than €40,000 can apply for a reduced school fee of €50 per month.
All Phorms students eat the school lunch. The meals are freshly prepared at the school by “Bio für Kids” and are charged at €80 per month. For a further contribution of €11 per month, sugar-free drinks and a healthy afternoon snack can be provided.
Sibling discounts and income-based fee reductions are also available upon request.
Learning materials are provided by the school. For this, we charge a monthly fee of €5 per student. Additionally, depending on the year group, a fee of €20-80 is charged at the beginning of the school year to cover individual learning materials.
If you wish, your child can be cared for by our staff both before school (from 7:30 am) and after school (until 6 pm). The care fee is in addition to the monthly school fee. The standard rate for one hour of daily after-school care is €30 per month.
Income-based fee reductions and sibling discounts of one-third to 50%, depending on the number of children, are also available upon request.
Holiday care is available at the Phorms Campus Hamburg during 9 of the 12 weeks of school holiday each year.
The holiday weeks are booked at the start of the school year and cost €120 per week. A flexible week of care can also be booked. This also costs €120 but offers you 6 days which you can use individually or consecutively.
Additional costs may arise throughout the school year for purchasing school uniforms, contributions to school trips, and, if applicable, for optional afternoon courses that require a fee.
All fees are payable in 12 monthly instalments. All contributions are collected in advance via direct debit from the specified account on the first working day of the month. At the same time, an invoice detailing the contributions will be sent by email.
Up to two-thirds of the costs of the parental contributions and Friends’ Association fees may be tax-deductible as childcare expenses. Please consult your tax advisor for specific advice!
Our families appreciate the small class sizes, targeted individual support programmes for various talents, and the fact that there are no class cancellations due to teacher absences. We also offer high-quality extracurricular care provided by highly qualified staff.
To ensure we can maintain this, the school relies on financial support from the Friends’ Association, which we kindly ask all families to join. The monthly membership fee is based on the family’s gross income and will be 0.31% of the income from two years prior to the current school year. You can find more information here.
Do you have questions about our school, our nursery or the registration process? We will be delighted to assist you with any queries.
Jessica Janorschke
Admissions Officer
