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Headmaster
  
Boris Štimac

Classes
  
21

Hours in school day
  
Varies from 5 to 9

Founded
  
8 November 1934

Pupils
  
555

Language
  
Croatian

Phone
  
+385 1 6677 188

Pupil
  
555

Established
  
8 November 1934; 82 years ago (8 November 1934)

Address
  
Ul. Žarka Dolinara 9, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia

Similar
  
I gimnazija, V Gymasium, X gymnasium "Ivan Sup, XV gimnazija, XI gimnazija - Zagreb

The Fourth Gymnasium (Croatian: IV. gimnazija, Četvrta gimnazija) is a public high school in Zagreb, Croatia specialising in languages. It opened its doors on 8 November 1934. Today it has about 555 students in 21 classes. It is situated at the Žarko Dolinar Street 9.

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Together with the regular school curriculum, the school also offers bilingual programs in English, German and French. IV Gymnasium is amongst the 10 best gymnasiums in the country according to the results of the Matura. The principal is Boris Štimac.

Getting into the school needs 72 points out of 80. The points are calculated from primary school grades, as well as competitions and extra criteria.

History

The IV Gymnasium in Zagreb was founded on October 8th, 1934. During the first month of its work, it worked as a part of I Gymnasium, but gained its independence the next month, on November 8th, and named itself The State IV Gymnasium for boys in Zagreb. IV Gymnasium shared its building with the II Classical gymnasium in the Izidor Kršnjavi Street, today a primary school. The first principal was dr. Dane Medaković.

In the report for 1940, 8 Ph.D.s worked in the school. It school moved again in 1943, to the university. With the end of the Second World War, IV Gymnasium moved to the building of the Real Gymnasium, in the southern wing, across the hotel Continental. In 1947 the school moved to Roosevelt square, where it remained until its abolishment in the year 1977, when it entered the composition of the Center.

When the school building was turned into the Mimara Museum in 1986, the school moved to various places in the city, with the directory in the Varšavska Street. Since the school year 1953/1954 the school has been co-educational, after working as a boys' school for 20 years. In 2015, three quarters of the students were girls. Up until then, the school had 14 to 20 classes every year.

With the loss of its old building on the Roosevelt square, the City of Zagreb promised to build a new building for the needs of I and IV Gymnasium. This promise was fulfilled with the completion of a modern building in Novi Zagreb, in the neighborhood Utrine. In 2014 the school moved again, having its own building for the first time. Ever since, the school has been in the neighborhood Kajzerica.

Programs

In Croatia, grades are restarted upon entering high school, so the grades are 1st-4th. Next to the name of the subject is shown how many classes of the subject there are per week in each grade.

  • In the 3rd grade, a 3rd foreign language can be picked.
  • References

    IV Gymnasium Wikipedia