✈️ Academic route
FROM🇯🇵 Japan→TO🇨🇭 Switzerland
Japan Grade 7 / Year 7 to Switzerland: education route
Compare Grade 7 / Year 7 in Japan with the corresponding school stage in Switzerland, then open the official curriculum and placement authorities for both systems.
01
Route alignment
Japan describes this point as Lower secondary · Grades 7–9. 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 STAGELower secondary · Grades 7–9✈ARRIVING STAGELower-secondary level
📚 Side-by-side
What crosses with the learner
Route point🇯🇵 Japan🇨🇭 Switzerland
Current stageLower secondary · Grades 7–9Lower-secondary level
Education authorityMEXT publishes national Courses of Study; local boards and schools administer enrolment and progression.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
🎓 Practice the route
Prepare with KSSR.Press
Independent study tools sit beside the route while the official requirements remain above.
🔎 Also described as
moving from Japan to Switzerland for Grade 7 / Year 7Japan Grade 7 / Year 7 in SwitzerlandJapan to Switzerland school transfer requirements