✈️ Academic route
FROM🇨🇭 Switzerland→TO🇰🇷 South Korea
Switzerland Grade 7 / Year 7 to South Korea: education route
Compare Grade 7 / Year 7 in Switzerland with the corresponding school stage in South Korea, then open the official curriculum and placement authorities for both systems.
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Route alignment
Switzerland describes this point as Lower-secondary level. South Korea describes the receiving stage as 중학교 · Grades 7–9. Use the linked destination framework with the learner’s current subjects and records when confirming the receiving year and placement process.
DEPARTING STAGELower-secondary level✈ARRIVING STAGE중학교 · Grades 7–9
📚 Side-by-side
What crosses with the learner
Route point🇨🇭 Switzerland🇰🇷 South Korea
Current stageLower-secondary level중학교 · Grades 7–9
Education authorityThe cantons hold primary responsibility for compulsory education; the Confederation and cantons coordinate upper-secondary and tertiary pathways.A national curriculum is implemented through metropolitan and provincial education offices; KICE administers the CSAT.
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
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Independent study tools sit beside the route while the official requirements remain above.
🔎 Also described as
moving from Switzerland to South Korea for Grade 7 / Year 7Switzerland Grade 7 / Year 7 in South KoreaSwitzerland to South Korea school transfer requirements