What is Volksschule?
{{no source|date=January 2024}} A '''Volksschule''' was part of an 18th-century system of state-supported [[primary school]]s established in the [[Habsburg]] [[Austrian Empire]].{{cn|date=January 2024}} Attendance was supposed to be compulsory. However, a 1781 census found that only one fourth of the school-age children attended. At the time, this was one of the few examples of state-supported schooling. The Volksschule still exist in [[Austria]] today, ''Volksschule'' is the Austrian equivalent to the German word ''Grundschule'' and the [[Swiss German]] word ''Primarschule'', i.e. [[primary school]]. {{history-stub}} [[Category:Types of educational institutions]] [[Category:Organizations based in Austria]]