MIOC
| XV. gimnazija | |
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Jordanovac 8 Zagreb  Croatia
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| Coordinates | 45°49′11″N 16°00′25″E / 45.81972°N 16.00694°ECoordinates: 45°49′11″N 16°00′25″E / 45.81972°N 16.00694°E |
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| Type | Public |
| Motto | A school for the knowledge society |
| Established | 1964 |
| Principal | Ljiljana Crnković |
| Faculty | around 100 |
| Grades | 9th through 12th |
| Enrollment | around 1,200 |
| Color(s) |
Blue |
| Website | XV. gimnazija |
Fifteenth Gymnasium (Croatian: XV. gimnazija, Petnaesta gimnazija), previously called, and still better known as MIOC, is a public high school in Zagreb, Croatia. It specializes in mathematics and computer science and it is considered to be the best high school in the capital along with Fifth Gymnasium (V. gimnazija). Therefore, in the previous years, it has been increasingly more difficult to be accepted to the school.
The school was founded as Fifteenth Mathematical Gymnasium (XV. matematička gimnazija) in 1964. It was the among the first schools in former Yugoslavia specializing in mathematics along with Mathematical Gymnasium (Matematička gimnazija) in Belgrade.
The first principal was Stefanija Bakarić, sister of Vladimir Bakarić, one of the leading politicians in the ruling League of Communists of Yugoslavia and the chairman of the League of Communists of Croatia at the time. The original curriculum was composed with the help from acclaimed university professors Svetozar Kurepa, Branislav Marković and Vladimir Devide. At the beginning, most of the teachers were university professors.
In 1965, it became the first school in Croatia to have information science as a school subject. Students first got the chance to work on actual computers in 1980.
In 1977, the school, now in a new building, merged with Seventh Gymnasium (VII. gimnazija) and Fourteenth Gymnasium (XIV. gimnazija, also then known as 25. maj). The newly founded school was named Education Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (Matematičko informatički obrazovni centar), abbreviated as MIOC. The school is still informally widely known under that name.
Denis Kuljiš, a known Croatian political columnist and opinion maker, himself an alumnus of XV. gimnazija, argues that at this point the quality of the school started to go down, since the teachers at other schools involved in the merger were not up to the standards of the school.
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