P 85
Schools, nurseries and universities, further education and training providers, language, music, dance and driving schools and tutoring institutes – for suppliers of teaching materials and learning software, school furniture, catering, facility services and training. Start with a clear inclusion and exclusion brief for German companies. Use industry, territory and required contact fields to describe a workable target group rather than requesting the largest possible list.
Our database (as of 21 October 2026): 87,894 businesses in this industry, 82,701 of them with a phone number.
Export of the whole industry: €319 (final price). Selections by federal state, district or your own filters are quoted on request.
Official statistics: 60,608 businesses in Germany according to Destatis, business register, GENESIS table 52111-0010 (reference year 2024, table updated 21 September 2026). Section P education (division 85). Schools and nurseries run directly by a federal state or a municipality are not businesses in their own right and are therefore not counted individually. This is the size of the market, not the size of our database.
| Item | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Businesses in our database | 87,894 | 100 % |
| with phone number | 82,701 | 94.1 % |
| with email address | 52,945 | 60.2 % |
| with website | 78,498 | 89.3 % |
| Price for the whole industry | €319 | Final price |
Section P “Education” consists of a single division, 85. It ranges from nurseries through general and vocational schools and higher education to other education – sports and recreation courses, music and dance schools, driving schools, language schools, adult education and tutoring.
Crèches and after-school care are not classified here but under social work (88.91 child day-care activities). Training that a company provides only for its own employees appears under that company’s own industry.
| WZ 2008 | Official title | For your selection |
|---|---|---|
| 85.10 | Pre-primary education | nurseries (Kindergärten); crèches and after-school care are under 88.91 |
| 85.20 | Primary education | public and independent primary schools |
| 85.3 | Secondary education | general (85.31) and vocational secondary schools (85.32) |
| 85.4 | Higher education | universities (85.42), technical schools and colleges |
| 85.5 | Other education | sports and recreation education (85.51), cultural education such as music and dance schools (85.52), driving and flying schools (85.53), adult education and tutoring (85.59) |
| 85.60 | Educational support activities | educational consulting, examination and testing services |
Education is a matter for the federal states. There is therefore no nationwide list, but directories and approvals at different levels.
These 15 columns are included.
Targeting brief for Addresses of schools and training providers: For each relevant code (85.10, 85.20, 85.3, 85.4, 85.5, 85.60), decide which activity fits your offer and which neighbouring activities to exclude. Unavailable attributes are: type of school, number of pupils and teachers; type of operator (public, church, private); approvals and certifications of providers; names of head teachers and contact persons; course programmes, dates and prices. Do not treat these as filters already applied to the list. Transfer the boundaries explained below into the brief and flag the research your team still needs to do.
A state school is not a business in its own right: it is run by a municipality, a district or a federal state. Decisions on equipment and procurement are often made by the school authority and its procurement office, not by the head teacher alone. Private schools, training providers and course operators, by contrast, do their own purchasing.
The official figure and our figure therefore describe different things. Destatis counts businesses; schools and nurseries run directly by a federal state or a municipality are not counted individually. Our database also lists such institutions when they appear with their own address and contact details.
Courses, studios and schools with similar names are common. A clean selection is easier if you name the group you are looking for – driving schools, music schools, language schools – rather than the whole section.
We offer a learning platform and are looking for tutoring institutes and language schools (85.59) in Berlin, Hamburg and Munich with a phone number and website. Adult education centres (Volkshochschulen) should not be included. Please tell us how many entries the selection includes.
Use cases
Write to the schools and training providers of a federal state before the school year starts.
Schools and nurseries by district for field sales.
Institutions in a delivery or service area.
Driving, music and language schools as partners for courses and exams.
Questions
Yes, insofar as they appear in our sources with their own address. For public schools, procurement is often decided by the school authority; for equipment topics, an additional selection from the industry Municipalities and public institutions can therefore be useful.
Yes. Driving schools are classified under 85.53, music and dance schools under 85.52, sports and recreation courses under 85.51. Name the group you want in your request.
Nurseries belong to this industry (85.10). The classification assigns crèches and after-school care to social work (88.91). Institutions called “Kita” are mostly listed here in our database because the name does not distinguish between nursery and crèche.
No. Selection helps document relevance, but does not establish demand, contact permission or response rates. Confirm which criteria can actually be applied and retain exclusions with the agreed brief.
60,608 businesses in Germany according to Destatis, business register, GENESIS table 52111-0010 (reference year 2024, table updated 21 September 2026). Section P education (division 85). Schools and nurseries run directly by a federal state or a municipality are not businesses in their own right and are therefore not counted individually. This is a figure from official statistics, not the size of our dataset.
87,894 businesses in our database (as of 21 October 2026), 82,701 of them with a phone number (94.1%), 52,945 with an email address and 78,498 with a website. Regional filters reduce the number; we confirm the size of your selection before you order.
Format, sources, price and marketing law (§ 7 UWG): questions about all industries.
