Gymnasium der Stadt Kerpen
| Gymnasium der Stadt Kerpen | |
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Philipp-Schneider-Straße 50171 Kerpen Rhein-Erft-Kreis North Rhine-Westphalia Germany |
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| Coordinates | 50°52′42.39″N 6°41′21.58″E / 50.8784417°N 6.6893278°ECoordinates: 50°52′42.39″N 6°41′21.58″E / 50.8784417°N 6.6893278°E |
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| School type | Public Gymnasium |
| Founded | 1968 |
| School number | 166741 |
| Head of school | Tatjana Strucken |
| Grades | 5–12 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Number of students | 2,266 (September 10, 2008) |
| Language | Economy English, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Russian, Spanish |
| Slogan | Gemeinsam lernen und leben – grenzüberschreitend denken und handeln |
| Newspaper | Gymnasium aktuell and Educat |
| Website | www.gymnasiumkerpen.eu |
The Gymnasium der Stadt Kerpen (German, High school of city Kerpen) is a Gymnasium and a Europe school (Europaschule) in Kerpen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
The school was founded in 1968. Since 2001 the additional name Europaschule (Europe school) has been officially used. The school has 165 teachers and 2,266 students (September 10, 2008).
The school has at its disposal an auditorium, a cafeteria, a refectory, two triple gyms, a library with more than 33,000 books and CD-ROMs, band practice rooms and different school yards.
A peculiarity at the Gymnasium der Stadt Kerpen is the bilingual education. Since the 1995/1996 school year, a bilingual German-English branch is offered. In grades 5 and 6, students who choose the bilingual branch have seven lessons in English a week instead of five. Geography is taught in English from grade 7, politics from grade 8 and history from grade 9.
In the sixth form (formerly grades 11 to 13, now grades 10 to 12) the curriculum is divided up into “social sciences”, “Mathematics and natural sciences”, “languages” and “other subjects”. Special subjects at the sixth form of the Gymnasium der Stadt Kerpen are pedagogy, psychology, social sciences, nutrition science, technology, foreign language correspondence English respective economy English, Italian and literature.
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