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Prague, Czech Republic · est. 2010 · Private
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Gymnázium Duhovka is a private Czech-English eight-year Gymnasium in Holešovice, Prague, founded in 2010 as a continuation of Duhovka basic school. It is part of the Duhovka system for children from age 2 to adulthood; the school's founder is the company Duhovka Group. The school follows Maria Montessori's pedagogy: group work, three-phase lessons and interdisciplinary projects. Subjects are taught by Czech and foreign teachers in Czech and English; the school's plan is B2 English by the end of kvarta and C1 by the end of sexta. Since September 2019 the school has been an IB World School and offers the IB Diploma Programme in the last two years. The Gymnasium's director is Petr Gazdík, a former Czech minister of education. Besides the day Gymnasium, the school runs a four-year distance programme ending with the Czech maturita.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $11 637 a year
25 200 CZK a month
The year is counted as ten payments: the school does not say how many payments it takes.
Programmes
IB · DP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Czech, English
Languages taught
German, Spanish
About the fees Day Gymnasium fees for the 2026-2027 school year: CZK 25200 per month, with a school year of 10 months. In the upper years (kvinta - oktáva) CZK 20000 per year is added, and the full IB programme in septima and oktáva adds CZK 15000 per year. The four-year distance programme costs CZK 65000 per year. A social scholarship can cover tuition and other costs.
Admissions Students enter the eight-year Gymnasium after grade 5 of basic school; for the 2026-2027 school year the school admitted 46 students into two first-year classes. Entrance: 60% weight from the national Cermat tests in Czech and maths, 40% from the school part - an assessment centre on motivation, cooperation and independence (20%), an oral interview in English (10%) and an English test (10%). Applications are submitted from 1 to 20 February. A few places are available in higher years: transfers are agreed with the director. The school says nothing about admitting foreign nationals on its admissions pages.
Stages and year groups Grades prima - oktáva. Eight-year Gymnasium from prima to oktáva, taught in Czech and English. In septima and oktáva students can take the full IB Diploma Programme (six subjects, three at higher level, plus the Extended Essay, TOK and CAS); everyone takes the Czech maturita, and the IB offers an international diploma on top. IB subjects include Czech A and English A, English, German and Spanish as second languages, economics, history, biology, chemistry, ESS, physics, two mathematics courses and visual arts. German or Spanish starts in the second year (sekunda), aiming at B1+ by oktáva.
Address Ortenovo náměstí 1275/34, 170 00 Praha 7
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · DP · authorised programmeThe IB register lists the Diploma Programme at the grammar school. It is a Czech gymnázium: the IB Diploma class is taught in English in the final years alongside the Czech curriculum and the maturita.
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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
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: The Gymnasium is in Holešovice, Prague 7. The school library has over 7000 books in Czech and English and also hands out textbooks. Lunches are delivered by the caterer Goodlunch: two soups and three main dishes daily, one always vegetarian; the dining room has a kitchen corner with a microwave and fridge. The school plans a new Gymnasium building on the grounds of Duhovka basic school.
Clubs and activities: Theatre · Music Ensemble · Vaření · Čtenářský klub
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
Teaching is done by qualified Czech and foreign teachers; English is taught by native speakers and Czech teachers. The IB coordinator has worked at the school since 2016 and built the IB programme from scratch. The director Petr Gazdík is a former Czech minister of education and teaches at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University.
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 roomnot stated on the website
✓Counsellor
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
✓Anti-bullying policy
The Duhovka Psychology Centre provides a school psychologist and a psychotherapist for students, parents and teachers. Each year group has a prevention programme run with external specialists, the prevention coordinator and the class teacher: prima covers bullying and cyberbullying, other years cover online safety, eating disorders, addiction, stress and first aid. The school works with a pastoral care system.
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