✈️ Academic route

FROM🇨🇭 SwitzerlandTO🇳🇱 Netherlands

Switzerland Grade 4 / Year 4 to Netherlands: education route

Compare Grade 4 / Year 4 in Switzerland with the corresponding school stage in Netherlands, then open the official curriculum and placement authorities for both systems.

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Route alignment

Switzerland describes this point as Primary level. Netherlands describes the receiving stage as Basisschool · Groups 3–8. Use the linked destination framework with the learner’s current subjects and records when confirming the receiving year and placement process.

DEPARTING STAGEPrimary levelARRIVING STAGEBasisschool · Groups 3–8

📚 Side-by-side

What crosses with the learner

Route point🇨🇭 Switzerland🇳🇱 Netherlands
Current stagePrimary levelBasisschool · Groups 3–8
Education authorityThe cantons hold primary responsibility for compulsory education; the Confederation and cantons coordinate upper-secondary and tertiary pathways.National attainment objectives and examination programmes sit alongside school autonomy and differentiated secondary pathways.
Application fileCurrent school records and subject historyReceiving authority and school placement requirements

🧳 Preparation file

Bring these into the route

  1. Recent report cards or transcripts and the current subject list
  2. School-attendance and progression records requested by the receiving school
  3. Identity, residence, guardianship, and address documents required locally
  4. Certified translations and language-learning history where requested

🔗 Official links

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🔎 Also described as

moving from Switzerland to Netherlands for Grade 4 / Year 4Switzerland Grade 4 / Year 4 in NetherlandsSwitzerland to Netherlands school transfer requirements