Gymnasium Blankenese

Altona · Blankenese

Gymnasium

Gymnasium Blankenese is a public Gymnasium in Blankenese, in the Altona district. In the 2024/25 school year, 884 students attended the school. For year 5 the school is set up for five parallel classes. Englisch and Spanisch are each offered as the first foreign language; Französisch and Latein are also taught. The full-day programme has a besondere Prägung: an extended morning timetable, with voluntary care in the afternoon.

Contact & Address

Address
Oesterleystraße 27, 22587 Hamburg
Phone
+49 40 428 971-0
Email
gymnasium-blankenese@bsfb.hamburg.de
Website
https://gymnasium-blankenese.de

School Profile

School Number
5831-0
School Type
Gymnasium
Full-Day Program
Extended timetable (besondere Prägung)

“Besondere Prägung” is the full-day form of most Hamburg Gymnasien: the extended timetable often keeps pupils at school past 1 p.m., while the afternoon care on offer until 4 p.m. is voluntary.

Parallel Classes (Grade 5)
5 classes
1st Foreign Language
Englisch, Spanisch
Foreign Languages
Englisch, Französisch, Latein, Spanisch
Student Count 2024/25
884
Social Index
6

Enrollment figures of recent years

According to official figures, Gymnasium Blankenese was oversubscribed in neither 2026/27 nor 2024/25. Across the recorded school years, first choices rose from 103 to 168. Most recently, 2026/27 saw 168 first choices for 168 places, a demand ratio of 100 per cent.

First choices are the applications naming this school first. Places are the actual admissions into Klasse 5, which include children admitted on their second or third choice. A red column means more first choices than places. Where the school authority has published no admission figures for a school year, the column is hatched and the ratio reads “no figure”.
First choices and places by school year
School YearApplications (1st choice)PlacesDemand ratioOversubscribed
2026/27168168100%No
2025/26135
2024/2510310697%No

Abitur Results

In the 2026 Abitur, Gymnasium Blankenese averaged 2.14 and sits in the better half of Hamburg's Gymnasien. An average is published for 61 Hamburg Gymnasien: the median is 2.25 and the range runs from 1.90 to 2.53.

Abitur results by year
YearAverageCandidates
20262.14114
20252.11115
20242.1882

Location