Conrad-von-Soest-Gymnasium
| Conrad-von-Soest High School | |
|---|---|
| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1876 (as the "municipal high school for girls") |
| address |
Paradieser Weg 92, 59494 Soest |
| place | 170392 |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 34 '12 " N , 8 ° 4' 55" E |
| student | 867 (status: 2007/2008) |
| Teachers | 42 |
| management | Andreas Heihoff |
| Website | conrad-von-soest-gymnasium.de |
The municipal Conrad-von-Soest Gymnasium Soest (also called "ConvoS") is one of the three Soest high schools .
history
The Conrad-von-Soest Gymnasium was founded in 1876 as the "municipal higher girls 'school" by a private girls' school that had existed since 1819. In 1911 the school was expanded to become a lyceum and in 1927 to become an upper lyceum with a reform high school direction. After the war, the school reopened in 1946. The pupils were prepared for the school-leaving exam in special courses. As a result of the reorganization of the school system, the girls' grammar school became the grammar school of the modern language. In addition, the women's school classes passed up to the lower secondary level.
In 1970 the city of Soest decided to move the grammar school into a new building on Paradieser Weg. In 1972 coeducational education began, followed in 1976 by the move to the new school center on Paradieser Weg.
After many years of school trials, the “Support Center for the Integrative Schooling of Blind and Severely Visually Impaired Students” (FIBS) was established at the school in 1988.
In 1982, Basketball AG was able to win the state championship title in North Rhine-Westphalia and went to Berlin for the federal decision "Youth trained for the Olympics". There the team was only stopped in the final by the team from Langen, Hesse and thus became German runner-up in this student competition. In 1984 the school was again able to win the state.
Members of the Biologie-AG became state winners in the "Jugend forscht" competition in 1993 and won further awards and special prizes at national and European level. In 1998 the Biologie-AG received an invitation from the Federal President Roman Herzog to his Berlin office. In 1999 the Conrad-von-Soest-Gymnasium was accepted into the network of innovative schools of the Bertelsmann Foundation and in 2000 was awarded the “Westphalian Peace Prize”.