Teaching in Containers: More and More Mobile Classrooms Relieve Vienna's Schools

Currently, there are a total of 170 mobile classrooms in Vienna. Of these, 45 were newly added in the past school year alone. To relieve the schools, the primary school Neilreichgasse in the tenth district will be expanded by nine additional classes from autumn. These will be equipped with modern toilet facilities and team rooms, however, this measure is intended as a temporary solution, as reported by ORF.

New Education Campus in Vienna-Donaustadt

Additionally, the expansion of the Liselotte Hansen-Schmidt education campus in Donaustadt, which has been under construction since April, will be operational from September. This new location includes eleven classrooms, a dining hall, as well as sanitary and auxiliary rooms, and was temporarily built for a period of five years. The city of Vienna emphasizes that the rapid population growth is leading to a significant increase in the demand for schools in many regions of the city.

Permanent Additions to Container Classrooms Planned

Currently, there are about 7,400 classes in compulsory and vocational schools in Vienna, of which 1,200 have been newly added in the last ten years. In the last school year, 256,500 children and adolescents attended a school in Vienna. To meet the ongoing demand, the city plans to build permanent additions at the locations of the mobile classrooms in the coming years and subsequently remove the containers. However, an advantage of the current mobile classrooms is that they are air-conditioned, which is not the case in most regular school buildings.

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