Gymnasium Achern

Berliner Straße 30

The Gymnasium is a secondary school in Achern Achern. Approximately 1370 students are taught there by about 108 teachers.

In 2005, the school was honored by the magazine Capital as best school in Germany.

History

The grammar school was founded in 1877 as Achern grammar school. In 1905, this expanded to junior high school and moved to a new building in 1921 and elevated to the secondary school. In 1976 the company moved to its present building; in the previous 1905 built building is now the Robert Schuman secondary school. The older part of the building is now used as a residence. Two extensions of the current building followed in 1997 and 2002. 2010 a new building was completed, which also houses a cafeteria and creative spaces.

Name

Since about any of the previous proposals to name the school after a person, a consensus could not be reached until further notice, the neutral name Achern school was maintained. Throughout history, however, possible names were discussed again and again.

Educational offer

The gymnasium has Achern addition to the traditional science and modern languages ​​an art focus. Thus, there are at the school called a Student Academy Art, are performed on the for gifted students from all over South Baden art projects. The offer is complemented so with the adjacent home school Lender, the other school of Achern region whose focus is on ancient languages ​​and music.

Also, it was one of the first schools that tested the eight-year grammar school as a school experiment before it was introduced throughout the country in Baden- Württemberg. In addition to the career and study guidance at high schools, the school also performs the Social Internships Program Compassion.

Equipment

Because the center of gravity on art education high school Achern has special rooms in this area, for example for stone processing. It has also extended sports facilities, including two beach volleyball courts and a beach soccer field. Each classroom is equipped with a video projector and an overhead projector. On the grounds of the school is beyond a station for breeding of storks.

School partnerships

  • France: Pont- Audemer, Morez
  • United States: Morganton, North Carolina
  • Spain Madrid
  • China: Hangzhou
  • Russia

Headmaster

1986-2012: Paul Droll

Since 2012: Stefan Christmas

Awards

The study carried out in 1986 comparative study of pedagogy professor Kurt Aurin high school Achern was regarding the school climate at number one among the seven schools in Baden-Württemberg. In of the 2005 first Germany -wide comparative study of schools that was conducted by the Research Institute euro Press on behalf of the magazine Capital, it was named the best school in Germany (schools with Gymnasium upper level ).

Capital (German magazine) Natural science Pont-Audemer Morganton (North Carolina)
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