Germany · St. Blasien
Kolleg St. Blasien suits families seeking a German Abitur and a strongly Jesuit school culture. Boarding begins in Grade 7, lessons are in German, and the published 2026–27 fees require careful reading alongside older payment documents.
Kolleg St. Blasien is a state-recognised Catholic Jesuit Gymnasium in the southern Black Forest. It has day pupils and about 230 boarders. Girls and boys attend the same school, but live in separate boarding areas.
The main qualification is the Baden-Württemberg Abitur, Germany’s general university-entrance qualification. The school does not offer the IB Diploma. German is the teaching language, so this is not an English-medium international school.
Day pupils can join from Grade 5. Regular boarding begins in Grade 7. The headteacher uses the admission interview to decide whether the applicant is ready for the academic level and which grade is appropriate.
The school is moving back to the nine-year Gymnasium, known as G9. Pupils who entered Grade 5 in 2025–26 are the first new G9 cohort and should reach the Abitur after nine Gymnasium years. Older cohorts remain under transitional G8 arrangements. Ask which structure applies to the applicant’s cohort.
The new G9 programme adds Magis periods for supervised independent work. It also strengthens German, mathematics and English, and gives informatics and media education a fixed place. The school week includes Saturday-morning lessons.
The Aufbaugymnasium is a separate three-year route from the Mittlere Reife or equivalent intermediate school qualification to the general Abitur. Applicants need both a core-subject average and an overall average of 3.0 or better. A pupil without a second foreign language must begin Spanish and continue it to the Abitur.
The school’s published Aufbaugymnasium deadline for 2026–27 was 27 February 2026. It has passed, and no 2027 deadline was available when this guide was checked.
The Grade 5 page still displays 12 March 2026 as its deadline. That cycle is closed. The school has not published a 2027 date, so do not shift the old date forward by one year.
For the 2026 process, the school asked for a recommendation for Gymnasium, the Grade 4 half-year report and the Grade 3 report. It also requested a photograph, birth certificate and baptism certificate. Ask whether that document list will remain unchanged.
Boarding applications normally start with a personal conversation and a presentation visit. Visits take place on selected Saturday mornings during term and are arranged through the school office. Regular entry is at the start of the school year or half-year. Exceptions may be considered after the autumn or Easter holiday.
The school accepts boarding pupils only when the child wants to board and has made that decision with the parents. It expects parents to remain actively involved and contact the boarding educators at least every two weeks.
Being Catholic is not an admission condition. However, the school expects openness to Christian belief and participation in religious education, prayers and Sunday services. A family uncomfortable with compulsory religious elements should resolve that issue before applying.
The one-year Euroklasse supports international pupils who already have basic German. Applicants should be able to manage simple everyday communication in writing and speech. They join regular Gymnasium lessons in Grades 8, 9 or 10 and receive daily German-as-a-foreign-language teaching.
The detailed Euroklasse page lists 12 weekly German lessons in the first half-year and eight in the second for the B1 group. It lists ten weekly lessons for the B2 group. The school’s short profile instead says seven additional weekly lessons. Ask for the timetable attached to the offered place.
The programme prepares pupils for a Goethe-Institut B1 or B2 examination. A pupil who wants to remain for the German Abitur must pass B2. The page says applications are accepted until June, but it does not identify a 2027 date.
The fee page has both day and boarding Euroklasse prices. The detailed programme page describes boarding accommodation. A day applicant should therefore ask how the non-residential version works in practice.
The school’s ZiBf, or Centre for Individual Talent Development, offers advice and programmes for strengths and learning needs. The short profile specifically mentions dyslexia and ADHD. Boarding pupils also have scheduled supervised study, with pupil mentors or external tutors available when additional help is recommended.
Private tutoring can be charged separately. The published material does not guarantee specialist provision, a particular staffing ratio or full physical accessibility. Ask for a written assessment of the child’s needs, the proposed support, its cost and who delivers it.
The boarding service includes a nursing department. The school says its doctor holds four clinics each week and remains reachable outside those sessions. This does not replace checking insurance, consent arrangements or access to a chosen specialist.
Boarding groups are divided by gender and grade. The detailed care pages say groups have 15 to 30 pupils and at least two boarding educators. The short profile says 12 to 20 pupils. Ask for the current size and staffing of the specific group offered.
Younger pupils share multi-bed rooms. From Grade 10, pupils use single or double rooms, subject to the available accommodation. Laundry is included in the boarding fee. Clothing must be labelled as instructed by the school.
All boarders must leave during school holidays. Families living abroad therefore need confirmed travel or host-family arrangements for every closure. The boarding team may help Euroklasse pupils seek a German host family, but that is not a promise of holiday accommodation.
Compulsory boarding-group outings are capped at €180 per half-year and charged as extras. Optional trips are additional. The school also asks families to open a local pocket-money account with about €150 and top it up when needed.
Pupils can raise concerns through staff, school and boarding councils, pupil representatives or the prevention lead. The current lead is Susanne Hirt at shirt@kolleg-st-blasien.org. The policy also names two external ombuds contacts, Dr Stefanie Heinrich and Henk Göbel.
The child helpline Nummer gegen Kummer is listed as 116 111. During a visit, ask the school to show the child the confidential reporting route, explain when confidentiality must be broken and identify the adult available outside lesson time.
The live fee page gives these charges for the year from 1 August 2026 to 31 July 2027.
| Route | Monthly charge | Annual charge |
|---|---|---|
| Day, Grades 5–8 | €165 | €1,980 |
| Day, Grades 9–12, including iPad supplement | €185 | €2,220 |
| Externat, three afternoons with lunch | €125 | — |
| Externat, five afternoons with lunch | €180 | — |
| Boarding entry in Grades 7–9 | €2,595 | €31,140 |
| Boarding entry in Grade 10 | €2,845 | €34,140 |
| Boarding entry in course stage 11/12 | €3,195 | €38,340 |
| Guest boarding, full 12 months | €3,100 | €37,200 |
| Guest boarding, under one year | €3,600 | — |
| Day Euroklasse, excluding ordinary school fee | €530 | €6,360 |
| Boarding Euroklasse, including school fee | €3,230 | €38,760 |
The one-time admission fee is €250 for regular and guest boarders. It is €500 for a boarding Euroklasse pupil. A higher boarding entry rate applies only when the pupil did not enter in the earlier price stage. Earlier entrants retain their earlier stage price.
The school normally collects fees quarterly and expects annual increases from 1 August. It estimates about 3% for boarding and €5 more per month for day pupils. Trips, books, private tutoring and instrument lessons can create further charges. Those extras are billed three times a year.
Most payment PDFs linked from the current application page are dated August 2025 and show older prices. Several mention an €800 non-interest-bearing deposit, while the current fee page says nothing about a deposit. The old Euroklasse boarding sheet says €250 for admission; the live 2026–27 page says €500.
Only the course-stage boarding payment sheet is explicitly marked 2026–27. It sets four instalments of €9,585 and payment within 14 days of invoice. It also says entry by the end of October creates liability for the full year from 1 August. Do not apply those terms to another route without written confirmation.
The public documents reviewed do not provide a complete current withdrawal, notice or refund schedule. Before accepting, obtain the actual 2026–27 contract for the offered route. Confirm the deposit, instalments, mid-year-entry liability, withdrawal charge, notice period and treatment of extras in writing.
Day families can apply annually to the Kolleg director for help with school fees. Decisions are made in early July for the following year. Boarding families discuss aid and sibling reductions with the director during the presentation day.
Funding comes from a limited social fund, so awards are neither automatic nor necessarily complete. Guest pupils and boarding Euroklasse pupils cannot apply for scholarships.
For stays over 90 days, immigration status must be checked separately from admission. The Federal Foreign Office says long-term school attendance is possible but generally begins from Grade 9. That point matters because regular boarding starts in Grade 7 and Euroklasse placement can begin in Grade 8.
The school does not publish a service that guarantees visas, residence permits or local legal guardianship. Ask the responsible German mission and foreigners authority about the individual case. Also agree who can give consent in emergencies and take responsibility during every holiday closure.
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