IX-th Belgrade Gymnasium "Mihailo Petrović-Alas"

Ninth Belgrade Grammar School
IX Gymnasium "Mihailo Petrović-Alas",
Location
New Belgrade, Serbia
Information
Type	Gymnasium
Established	1961 (1961)
Enrollment	approx. 1000

The IX Grammar School "Mihailo Petrović-Alas" (Serbian: Deveta gimnazija "Mihailo Petrović-Alas; Девета гимназија "Михајло Петровић-Алас") is a high school located in New Belgrade, Serbia. Founded in 1961, the school is named after the Serbian mathematician Mihailo Petrović-Alas.

The school has a reputation of being very academically demanding, with high entry standards: for example, in 2005, an applicant needed a score of at least 96 out of 100 points on the Serbian High school examination to enroll in the school [1], the highest score of any high school in Belgrade that year.

The legend passed from generation to generation of incoming students is that the school building served as a women's prison before being converted to a school. The legend was perpetuated by graffiti on the school building, saying "Stavite nam turpiju u lebac!" ("Put a file in our bread!"), as well as the fact that some buildings' ground-floor windows have bars.

An article from 2000 titled "The Political beginning of Zoran Đinđić," claims that it was Dr. Milan Kovačević, a professor of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy. The article states that the IXth gymnasium was notorious in communist Yugoslavia for its liberal atmosphere

Ninth Belgrade Gymnasium "Mihailo Petrović-Alas"

Ninth Belgrade Gymnasium "Mihailo Petrović-Alas" Courtyard II

Ninth Belgrade Gymnasium "Mihailo Petrović-Alas" Smk Corner

Ninth Belgrade Gymnasium "Mihailo Petrović-Alas" Courtyard

Ninth Belgrade Gymnasium "Mihailo Petrović-Alas" Hall

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Ninth Belgrade Gymnasium "Mihailo Petrović-Alas" Corridor

Ninth Belgrade Gymnasium "Mihailo Petrović-Alas" Classroom