Athénée Robert Catteau
| Robert Catteau secondary school Athénée Robert Catteau |
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Logo since 2013
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49 Ernest Allard street Brussels Brussels, 1000  Belgium
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| Coordinates | 50.83883, 4.353354 |
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| School type | State subsidized public schools, General education |
| Founded | 1851, 1948 |
| Oversight | Public education, Enseignement officiel network |
| Principal | Laurent Genot |
| Headmistress | Evelyne Gotto |
| Employees | 69 (2016) |
| Enrolment | 694 |
| Classes offered | Latin-Greek, Latin-Sciences, Latin-Mathematics, Science-Mathematics, Economy-Mathematics |
| Medium of language | French |
| Colour(s) | Grey, white and red |
| School fees | Free |
| Website | http://robertcatteau.be |
The Robert Catteau secondary school (French: Athénée Robert Catteau) is a French-speaking school of the City of Brussels, located on the Ernest Allard street, part of the subsidized public schools network enseignement officiel. Since 1948, it holds the name of Robert Catteau (1880-1956), attorney, journalist and alderman of the City of Brussels. The original name of the school was École moyenne A, founded in 1851. The school provides modern general education preparing for university studies and qualifies itself as a "center of excellence".
The building of the École moyenne A, in Art deco style, took place from 1923 to 1927 between the Church of Saints-Jean-et-Étienne-aux-Minimes and the Palace of Justice, following plans of architect François Malfait.
The ancient convent of the Minimes, built uppon the house of Renaissance anatomist Andreas Vesalius, had been decommissioned in 1790, and served successively as a deposit of begging in 1801, a tobacco factory in 1813, a lithography workshop in 1815, a military hospital and finally a women's prison before being destroyed in 1920. Malfait had to contend with the height difference and the strict height limit of the buildings to preserve the panorama of the Poelaert square located above. The new buildings of the Middle School A were inaugurated on September 27, 1927. On December 7, 1948, the school became the Athénée Robert Catteau.
In 1948, the upper grades comprised three classical orientations: the Latin-Greek, Latin-Mathematics and Latin-Sciences sections (created in 1947). A Scientific A section was created in 1951 and a seventh secondary preparatory grade to higher education in 1958. The Athénée opened to girls in 1978. In 2011, sections were restructured in order to adapt to other establishments in the Brussels-Capital region. The Latin-Greek, Latin-Mathematics and the Latin-Sciences final orientations remained unchanged, but Scientific A became Mathematics-Sciences and a new finality was added: the Economy-Mathematics section.
On January 1, 2016, Evelyne Gotto replaced André Possot as head of the athenaeum.
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