✈️ Academic route
FROM🇦🇹 Austria→TO🇨🇭 Switzerland
Austria Grade 7 / Year 7 to Switzerland: education route
Compare Grade 7 / Year 7 in Austria with the corresponding school stage in Switzerland, then open the official curriculum and placement authorities for both systems.
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Route alignment
Austria describes this point as Mittelschule or AHS lower cycle · Years 5–8. Switzerland describes the receiving stage as Lower-secondary level. Use the linked destination framework with the learner’s current subjects and records when confirming the receiving year and placement process.
DEPARTING STAGEMittelschule or AHS lower cycle · Years 5–8✈ARRIVING STAGELower-secondary level
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What crosses with the learner
Route point🇦🇹 Austria🇨🇭 Switzerland
Current stageMittelschule or AHS lower cycle · Years 5–8Lower-secondary level
Education authorityFederal law and the Federal Ministry of Education frame the school system, with education directorates and school types administering pathways.The cantons hold primary responsibility for compulsory education; the Confederation and cantons coordinate upper-secondary and tertiary pathways.
Application fileCurrent school records and subject historyReceiving authority and school placement requirements
🧳 Preparation file
Bring these into the route
- Recent report cards or transcripts and the current subject list
- School-attendance and progression records requested by the receiving school
- Identity, residence, guardianship, and address documents required locally
- Certified translations and language-learning history where requested
🔗 Official links
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🔎 Also described as
moving from Austria to Switzerland for Grade 7 / Year 7Austria Grade 7 / Year 7 in SwitzerlandAustria to Switzerland school transfer requirements