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Rijeka, Croatia · est. 1627 · State
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One of the oldest schools in Croatia: the Jesuits opened a college with a gimnazija in Rijeka on 23 November 1627, a hundred and fifty students came to the first lessons, the school has borne its present name since 1992, and it has worked for more than a hundred and twenty years in the building by the Hungarian architect Győző Czigler on Frana Kurelca street. The gimnazija is four years long, and the school library, which goes back to the Jesuit collection with its rare editions of the 16th and 17th centuries, has shared one room with the library of Gimnazija Andrije Mohorovičića since 1992/93. The school was the third in Croatia to introduce the Diploma Programme: it occupies the third and fourth years and is taught in English, Croatian literature is taken as the first language, and the second languages in the programme are English, French from scratch and Spanish. For the Middle Years Programme the school is so far a candidate and itself warns that candidate status gives no guarantee that authorization will be granted. Teaching in the gimnazija itself is state-funded and free of charge, while the Diploma Programme is paid: 5,000 EUR per student per school year, in no more than four payments, plus 10 EUR for the application and a deposit for textbooks and equipment. Among student bodies the school names the magazine “KULT”, a volunteering club, the sports club “Gimnazijalac” and the literary programme “Rijeka riječi”, and among its alumni and teachers it lists Andrija Mohorovičić, Ivan Zajc, Antun and Ivan Mažuranić.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $0–5 809 a year
0–5 000 EUR
Programmes
IB · DP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Croatian, English
Languages taught
Italian, German, French, Spanish
Registration fee
≈ $12
10 EUR
About the fees The gimnazija itself is state-funded, and there is no tuition fee for it. The Diploma Programme is paid, and the school names the sums outright: 5,000 EUR per student per school year, payable in no more than four instalments. On top of that come 10 EUR for the application and 50 EUR for each entrance examination, if one is needed. The deposit for the textbooks and equipment the school issues is 300 EUR, or 100 EUR if the student works on their own computer; the deposit is returned at the end of the programme, once all obligations have been met and the materials returned undamaged. In the school's own words: “€5,000 per student per school year (payable in max 4 installments)”.
Admissions Students are taken onto the Diploma Programme after the second year of upper secondary school: a very good or excellent overall result for the second year is required, marks no lower than very good in Croatian, mathematics and English, and command of English in speaking, reading and writing under the school's language policy. Those who come from a vocational school are given entrance examinations in all three subjects, and those whose marks fall short - an examination in the subject they lack. The school sets out the admission order by day: applications from 23 June to 1 July, interviews and entrance examinations from 2 to 5 July, enrollment from 8 to 12 July. Entry to the ordinary gimnazija goes through the state e-upis system, and the school publishes the rules for selecting candidates for the first year as a separate document.
Stages and year groups Grades 1-4. Four years of the Croatian gimnazija; the diploma programme takes the third and the fourth year and lasts two years. How many streams there are in each intake, and along which lines, the school does not set out on its pages: the “Nastavni program” page in its menu returns an error, and the subject and class information is published only as files.
Address Ul. Frana Kurelca 1, 51000 Rijeka
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · DP · authorised programmeschool is in an official registryconfirmed by a school document, by membership or by taking part in a networkclaimed by the school, no confirmation, not counted in the scoreGuide to all organisations → What stands behind each entry
IBInternational Baccalaureate
A Swiss non-profit, working since 1968. Its programmes are among the most widely recognised school programmes in the world. Authorisation is granted stage by stage, so a school with the final stage does not necessarily run the younger ones; which stages this school holds is set out in the line below.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run this programme and to award its certificate. This is a confirmation of the programme, not a judgement on the school as a whole. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. At this school: DP (ages 16-19). DP is the final stage, ages 16 to 19: six subjects plus a compulsory core of theory of knowledge, an extended essay and CAS. The diploma is accepted by universities all over the world, and in a number of countries it counts for admission on the same footing as the local leaving certificate.
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The state school programme of the country the school stands in: it is set by that country's ministry of education, which also licenses the school and awards the leaving certificate. That certificate is used for entry to local universities, and abroad it is matched to the local one.
What this means for this school. This entry does not count towards the score, and that is deliberate. Every lawful school in a country works to the national programme, so on its own it tells one school apart from no other - unlike the French, German or Russian programmes, which are carried abroad and confirmed by the register of their organisation. We show it because a parent needs to know what programme their child is taught and what certificate the child will get. Counting it would lift the whole ranking at once and still tell nobody apart.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
The school publishes nothing about where its leavers go: no share going on to university, no exam results, no list of universities.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓LibraryA school library descending from the Jesuit collection of 1627: the inventory of 1777 lists 1,644 titles in 2,570 volumes, and the holdings include rare 16th- and 17th-century editions, among them a book of 1506 and a Glagolitic breviary of 1648; since 1992/93 the premises have been shared with Gimnazija Andrije Mohorovičića, and the library works as the school's information and cultural centre
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: A building by the Hungarian architect Győző Czigler at Frana Kurelca 1 in the centre of Rijeka, which the school has worked in for more than a hundred and twenty years. The school lists neither classrooms and subject rooms, nor laboratories, nor a sports hall, nor a canteen.
Clubs and activities: Školski časopis KULT - the school magazine · Volonterski klub PRHG - volunteering · Školski sportski klub “Gimnazijalac” - school sports club · Književni program “Rijeka riječi” - a literary programme
Summer programme away from campus: The gimnazija has no summer school of its own. Outside lessons it holds an Erasmus+ accreditation and pupil mobilities, the projects SiLab, Steps 2030 World, Life After Sport, ASOC under the Interreg Italia-Hrvatska programme, Archive to Alive and HOLA PRHG, and the standing of a European Parliament ambassador school.. The school runs no camp of its own on campus
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
The staff are published by name with their subjects, about seventy people, and there is a separate section “Nastavnici u IB programu” among them. For languages, teachers of Croatian, English, Italian, German, French, Spanish and Latin are named. The support services list the school psychologist Sabina Saltović, the school pedagogue Renata Hasel and the librarian Sandra Vidović; the diploma programme coordinator is Bisera Karanović. The school gives neither qualifications, nor length of service, nor the number of pupils per teacher.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
·Security staffnot stated on the website
·Access controlnot stated on the website
✓Nurse or medical roomThe school doctor Željkica Hadrović Pavišić and the nurse Selma Vidas, with the surgery at Studentska 1
✓CounsellorThe school psychologist Sabina Saltović and the school pedagogue Renata Hasel
✓Child protection policyTwo separate documents: a protocol for action in cases of violence between children and young people, and a protocol for action in cases of sexual violence
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
There is also a school code of ethics, rules for the safe use of computer resources and a complaints procedure for the diploma programme. The school names no staff training, no security staff and no video surveillance.
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)82 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data70 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data65 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data70 "Scored on disclosed data" stands where we count only what the school has written about itself on its own site: exams and destinations, safety and wellbeing, teaching staff, facilities, clubs and activities. A low score here means the school does not write about this, not that the school does not have it: a school with good security and a sparse site will score low. A school can fill in its profile, and the score will be counted again.
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