Kirn High School
| Kirn High School | |
|---|---|
| type of school | Science, technology and modern language grammar school |
| address |
Turnstrasse 2 |
| place | Kirn |
| country | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 47 '30 " N , 7 ° 27' 7" E |
| carrier | Bad Kreuznach district |
| student | about 700 |
| Teachers | approx. 50 |
| management | Barbara Wendling |
| Website | www.gym-kirn.de/ |
The Gymnasium Kirn is the high school of the city of Kirn in Rhineland-Palatinate . The current number of students is around 700.
Historical
The Kirner Gymnasium originally emerged from the Piaristenkolleg , a Catholic school. In 1815 initiatives to found a higher school in Kirn were sought for the first time, which were implemented in 1821. This Progymnasium was first considered the "Higher City School" of Kirns, but in 1828 it was converted into a rectorate school. An expansion took place in 1860 when the five-class model “Sexta to Obertertia” was introduced. The Kirner pupils had to take their Abitur in the neighboring towns of Sobernheim or Idar-Oberstein until 1965 .
In 1918 the school building had to be forcibly closed due to the billeting of German and French troops during the First World War . However, the school was able to reopen a year later. In 1938 the school moved to the "Villa Simon", some of which was confiscated from 1939 for military purposes. In 1944 the building was badly damaged by bombing and had to be closed; In November 1945 the grammar school was reopened in the former Piarist College (today's Kirner town hall).
In 1960 the grammar school was nationalized. In 1966 the grammar school moved from the city center to a new building on the outskirts; in the same year the first Abitur took place in Kirn. The current model of the upper level, the Mainz study level (MSS), was introduced in 1970. In 1991 a commemorative publication was published for the anniversary "225 years of the Piarist College and 25 years of the new grammar school".
A naming of the school that went beyond the prosaic-functional "Gymnasium Kirn" has been discussed several times. For a name sponsorship u. a. the Kirn workers' poet Julius Zerfaß discussed and rejected again; the name Wilhelm Dröscher has already been taken for a school. However, the school management is satisfied with the current situation.
Around 700 pupils are currently attending the Kirn grammar school, they are looked after by around 50 teachers (excluding trainees).
Support measures
A comprehensive funding program is offered. The "Kirner model" is a well-known funding model. While in many schools low-performing students receive special care, the Kirner model caters to particularly gifted and motivated students and enables them to skip a level after completing a special catch-up program in the 9th grade.
Awards
The Kirner model won first prize in the state competition "Quality of School Work" (2003/2004) of the Ministry of Education, Women and Youth.
In a 2005 study by Capital magazine of around 3,000 German grammar schools, the Kirner grammar school took 95th place and was named one of “Germany's best schools”. However, since the ranking was exclusively a self-assessment of the respective schools, this study can neither be regarded as representative nor as objective.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Are not at all keen on it" - Kirner Gymnasium is and remains without a name ; Allgemeine Zeitung (Kirn edition), September 16, 2006
- ↑ Laudation on the pages of the grammar school with an explanation of the "Kirner model" ( Memento from November 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Capital study 2005