← Back to homeX. gimnazija Ivan Supek
Zagreb, Croatia · est. 1961 · State
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X. gimnazija Ivan Supek stands in the centre of Zagreb, on Ul. Vjekoslava Klaića, and calls itself the largest gimnazija in Croatia: 1,084 pupils in 41 classes. The school dates itself from 1961, when the tenth gimnazija opened on Medulićeva ulica; the present institution was re-established in 1991, and the school calls the building on Klaićeva the source and seedbed of Zagreb’s upper secondary schools, tracing its history back to the city’s first craft school of 1882. There are two tracks - the general gimnazija and the science and mathematics gimnazija - and each has a bilingual variant in which some subjects are taught in English: mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, geography, ethics, sociology, art, music, philosophy and physical education. The bilingual programme has been running since 2007, there are eleven such classes with about 270 pupils in them, and it rests on a parental contribution of 600 euros a year. Since October 2008 the school has housed Cambridge examination centre HR006, the first in a state school in Croatia: IGCSE, AS and A level are taken there both by its own pupils and by private candidates, and for the gimnazija’s own pupils an examination costs half as much. The first foreign language is English, the second is German, Italian, Spanish, French or Russian by choice, and Latin is taught in the first two years; there are more than a dozen clubs - from the choir, the debating club and the school magazine “Cener” to the “Cenerice” dance club, the museum club and the volunteers’ club. The gimnazija publishes neither the results of the state matura nor those of its own centre’s Cambridge sessions, and it gives no list of the universities its leavers go to.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $697 a year
600 EUR
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · National programme
Languages of instruction
Croatian, English
Languages taught
German, Italian, Spanish, French, Russian
About the fees The general and the science and mathematics gimnazija charge nothing for teaching, and the school sets no sum for them. A contribution is charged only on the bilingual tracks, where some subjects are taught in English: “Naknada za povećane troškove obrazovanja u programima opće gimnazije uz skupinu predmeta na stranom jeziku i prirodoslovno-matematičke gimnazije uz skupinu predmeta na stranom jeziku godišnje iznosi 600,00 € kroz 10 nastavnih mjeseci ili u jednom iznosu” - that is, 600.00 EUR a year, in ten payments matching the number of teaching months or in a single sum, under the agreement between the school and the parent. Cambridge examinations are paid for separately from this contribution: for the November 2026 session IGCSE costs 113.00 EUR for a pupil of the gimnazija and 250.00 EUR for a private candidate, AS level 140.00 EUR and 300.00 EUR, A level 200.00 EUR and 350.00 EUR, and the practical component where there is one, for example in A level chemistry, 46.45 EUR and 100.00 EUR.
Admissions Admission goes through the state system on points. For 2026/2027 the school has announced 286 places in eleven classes: the general gimnazija - four classes and 114 pupils, the general gimnazija with a group of subjects in English - one class and 29 pupils, the science and mathematics gimnazija - four classes and 114 pupils, the science and mathematics gimnazija with a group of subjects in English - two classes and 57 pupils. Last year’s entry scores are named by the school itself: 76.61 for the general gimnazija, 78.71 for the general gimnazija with English, 83.35 for the science and mathematics gimnazija and 79.94 for the science and mathematics gimnazija with English. Anyone applying for a bilingual track must sit a written examination in English - reading comprehension and tasks on vocabulary and grammar, with multiple choice, true or false, gap filling, verb forms and word formation. The examination is pass or fail: it gives no extra points, but without it a pupil is not taken onto the programme. The dates of the written tests are announced by the gimnazija during May.
Stages and year groups Grades years 1-4 of the gimnazija. A four-year gimnazija with two tracks - general and science and mathematics - each of which has a bilingual variant with a group of subjects taught in English. In 2025/2026 there are 41 classes and 1,084 students, of which eleven classes are bilingual with about 270 students in them: three in each of the first, second and third years and two in the final year. The school writes that it plans to expand the bilingual programme further; in September 2022 music, philosophy and physical education were added to it.
Address Ulica Vjekoslava Klaića 7, 10000 Zagreb
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · 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
CambridgeCambridge International Education
Part of the University of Cambridge. It allows a school to teach the Cambridge programmes and to enter pupils for the exams. There are four stages and they are authorised separately: primary, lower secondary, IGCSE and A Level. If the stages are known they are named in the line below; if that line is missing, the school does not publish them, and the Cambridge registry does not show stages either - it gives only the name of the centre, the country and whether private candidates are accepted. Cambridge calls what it does registration rather than accreditation, and the network holds about ten thousand schools.
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. The programme has been authorised since 2008. At this school: IGCSE (ages 14-16), A-Level (ages 16-18). IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate. A-Level is the senior years, and their results are what British and many other universities admit on.
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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 hall
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: The gimnazija occupies a historic building in Vjekoslava Klaića street in the centre of Zagreb - the very building the school calls the source and the nursery of Zagreb's secondary schools. The school has specialised rooms for languages, informatics, history, biology, music, art and geography, well-equipped physics and chemistry laboratories, sports halls and a library. The library is on the third floor, room 323, occupies 102 square metres, holds 9,455 volumes and a reading room with 24 seats, and has two librarians and an online catalogue for searching the collection; it works in two shifts, from 8:00 to 14:00 and from 13:00 to 19:00.
Clubs and activities (13): Choir · Drama and recitation group · Drama club · Film club · Debating club · Journalism club · School magazine “Cener” · School sports club “Cener” · Croatian language club · Volunteering club · First aid · Dance club “Cenerice” · Museum club
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
✓Number of teachers86
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
The school gives its staff in numbers: 108 employees, of whom 86 are teachers, 4 are specialist counsellors and 18 are other staff. The gimnazija publishes no list of teachers by name with their subjects and qualifications, just as it publishes no ratio of students per teacher; the only person named is the school psychologist. The subject councils are listed on a separate page, without teachers' names.
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 medicine page is given over to a document of the Institute of Public Health; the school does not describe the service in its own words and does not name a doctor.
✓CounsellorThe school psychologist Marija Roth Jelisavčić has worked at the gimnazija since 2003: psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, with further training in psychotherapy and supervision. She plans and runs developmental and preventive programmes for students, parents and teachers, leads the volunteer club and the school projects on mental health, wellbeing and volunteering, has given more than a hundred and fifty lectures and sessions, and has been recognised with the “Otisak srca” award and the Stjepan Cipek award. The gimnazija does have a pedagogue - she is one of the four specialist counsellors - but the “Pedagoginja” page is empty: it carries no name, no description of the work and no office hours.
✓Child protection policyThe gimnazija publishes four protocols: on launching psychological crisis interventions in the education system, on action in cases of violence among children and young people, on action in cases of domestic violence, and on action in cases of child abuse and neglect. Separately it has published its own protocol for a teacher's action on suspicion or information about a student's difficulties in the area of mental health, and its mental health section collects pages on what mental health is, how to care for it and where to turn for help.
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)85 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 data70 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data75 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 "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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