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State Rankings of German Schools

June 24, 2002

The PISA comparison of German schools ranked the performance of 15-year-old students in 14 of the German federal states. Hamburg and Berlin did not participate. The results are below.

https://p.dw.com/p/2RbI

Reading comprehension

  1. Bavaria
  2. Baden-Württemberg
  3. Saxony
  4. Rheinland-Palatinate
  5. Saarland
  6. Thuringia
  7. North Rhine-Westfalia
  8. Schleswig-Holstein
  9. Hessen
  10. Lower Saxony
  11. Mecklenburg-West Pomerania
  12. Brandenburg
  13. Saxony-Anhalt
  14. Bremen

Scientific Literacy

  1. Bavaria
  2. Baden-Württemberg
  3. Saxony
  4. Thuringia
  5. Rheinland-Palatinate
  6. Schleswig-Holstein
  7. Saarland
  8. Hessen
  9. Mecklenburg-West Pomerania
  10. North Rhine-Westfalia
  11. Lower Saxony
  12. Saxony-Anhalt
  13. Brandenburg
  14. Bremen

Mathematic literacy

  1. Bavaria
  2. Baden-Württemberg
  3. Saxony
  4. Thuringia
  5. Schleswig-Holstein
  6. Rheinland-Palatinate
  7. Saarland
  8. Hessen
  9. Mecklenburg-West Pomerania
  10. North Rhine-Westfalia
  11. Lower Saxony
  12. Saxony-Anhalt
  13. Brandenburg
  14. Bremen