Trần Đại Nghĩa High School
| Tran Dai Nghia High School for the Gifted Trường THPT Chuyên Trần Đại Nghĩa |
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53, Nguyễn Du P. Bến Nghé, Q.1 Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam  Vietnam
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| Coordinates | 10°46′47″N 106°42′03″E / 10.779609°N 106.700868°E |
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| School type | Public, high school, Secondary school |
| Opened | 2000 |
| Principal | Lâm Triều Nghi |
| Staff | 214 |
| Teaching staff | 168 |
| Grades | 6-12 |
| Song | Tran Dai Nghia March |
| Website | http://trandainghia.edu.vn/Trang-Chu.aspx |
Tran Dai Nghia High School for the Gifted is an academically selective public school for students years 12 to 18 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Established in 2000, Tran Dai Nghia High School was the first partially state-funded, semi-boarding school specializing in various subject, especially, on foreign languages in Ho Chi Minh city. The school requires entrance exams for admission (10% acceptance rate). Tran Dai Nghia High School ranks seventeenth nationally in the 2012 Vietnam university admission ranking, and ranks third among Ho Chi Minh City high schools.
Founded in 2000, the school was named after Professor Trần Đại Nghĩa, a scientist and weapon engineer who invented the Vietnamese bazooka and SKZ recoilless rifle during the Vietnam War. The school was set up by repurposing existing facilities of the Lasantaberd Institute, which was established in 1877. It was the first school to have Intensive English program in Hồ Chí Minh City. 2003 marked the school's first graduating class.
The school has many academic facilities, including a library, 3 well-maintained computer labs, an audiovisual room and a multimedia room. The school also contains two dining halls, a canteen and rooms for students to rest between classes. The school also has two basketball courts, three badminton courts as well as a volleyball court. In addition there are some basketball half-courts for students to practice inside the school ground. There are 5 blocks in the school: the main block in the center for the school managing board and four A, B, C, D blocks for classrooms around. As the number of students has been increasing every year, the number of classrooms and teachers has also risen.
In 2015, the school open the second center, at District 2 for only grades 6-7. From this change, the entrance exam now accept 525-600 students each year except 300-400 students per year. The new center have 1 computers-lab room with 50 computers. Two out of 4 vice-principal in school is now work in center 2. Because the second center is far from first center so there a shuttle service to help student from center 1 go to center 2 with the price of 400.000 đ
Tran Dai Nghia high school's students are known to have high level of fluency in English, and the school has a reputation for being one of the best education institutions for foreign languages in Ho Chi Minh City. Aside from English, high school students majoring in D-block subjects are also taught French or German. In addition, classes of grade 10, 11 and 12 are ranged in to specializing classes such as English majoring class, Math majoring class, Literature majoring class, Chemistry majoring class and Physics majoring class. There are also triple-subjected classes: Math-Chemistry-Physics and Math-Literature-English classes. A growing number of study abroad scholarships are won by students, a fact in which the school prides itself.
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