The best primary schools in Hungary

The institutions listed in this article had superbly developed their students’ abilities. That is also true for children with learning difficulties or troubled family background. There are public, canonical, and practising schools on the list as well, according to eduline.hu.

Evaluation aspects

The best educational institutes have been ranked since 2015 according to their teaching effectiveness. Furthermore, it is also an important feature how much teachers can reduce students’ disabilities. The list is based on the Hungarian national competency tests. Every 4, 6, 8, and 10 graders write this test annually in May. There are two skills students need to have good results in. These are mathematics and reading comprehension. All students’ results can be compared with their own results from the previous two years. The children and also their families can fill out a questionary where they can share details about their social life, for example, whether they receive child support or if the parents have full-time jobs. This helps to examine connections between their results and their social status.

Types of schools

All primary schools in Hungary have a chance to make it to the list whether it is a private, a public, a canonical, or a practising institution. A practising school is a special type of school that is part of a university where teachers trainee students can practice the teaching of what they learnt. These include schools such as the ELTE Gyertyánffy István Practising Primary School (ELTE Gyertyánffy István Gyakorló Általános Iskola) or the Béla IV Primary School in Hejőkeresztúr, which received a Prima Primissima prize for its effective pedagogical methods.

The list

There are four different lists:

Mathematics

Reading comprehension