Margaretha-Rothe-Gymnasium

Hamburg-Nord · Barmbek-Nord

Gymnasium

Margaretha-Rothe-Gymnasium is a public Gymnasium in Barmbek-Nord, in the Hamburg-Nord district. In the 2024/25 school year, 879 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. The school holds the MINT-freundliche Schule award for science and technology teaching.

Contact & Address

Address
Langenfort 5, 22307 Hamburg
Phone
+49 40 428 86 86 0
Email
margaretha-rothe-gymnasium@bsfb.hamburg.de
Website
https://mrg-online.de

School Profile

School Number
5834-0
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
879
Social Index
4

Enrollment figures of recent years

According to official figures, Margaretha-Rothe-Gymnasium was oversubscribed in neither 2026/27 nor 2024/25. Across the recorded school years, first choices swung between 133 and 150. Most recently, 2026/27 saw 140 first choices for 140 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
2026/27140140100%No
2025/26150
2024/2513314095%No

Abitur Results

In the 2026 Abitur, Margaretha-Rothe-Gymnasium averaged 2.43 and sits in the quarter of Hamburg's Gymnasien with the weakest results. 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
20262.4378
20252.4464
20242.2688

Location