Head of school Ivar Odd Størkersen Website www.kongsbakken.vgs.no Founded 1833 | Age 16 to 19 Phone +47 77 64 73 00 | |
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Motto Mens sana in corpore sano
(Latin: a healthy mind in a healthy body) Address Skolegata 16, 9008 Tromsø, Norway Similar Breivang videregå skole, Ishavsbyen Videregå Skole, Tromsdal videregå skole, Troms Fylkesko Utdannin, Tromsø maritime skole | ||
Kongsbakken Upper Secondary School (Norwegian: Kongsbakken videregående skole) is an upper secondary school in Tromsø, Norway. In the year 2000, Kongsbakken videregående skole had approximately 650 pupils, with about as many boys as girls. The school administration consists of a headmaster, a deputy headmaster, six section leaders and an office staff of four. Additionally, the school has two janitors and a librarian. Approximately 80 teachers provide education at Kongsbakken.
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The school offers the following educational programmes, which allow for higher education at a university or university college: realfag (Exact sciences), linguistic subjects and social science/economy, and music, dance and drama.
Since 1930, the students of the schools have made the annual Bragerevyen in their Christmas brakes, a revue premièring on 1 January.
History
The institution dates back to 1833 when Tromsø Middel- og Realskole opened, with two teachers and eighteen male students aged 12 to 16. At the time, the premises were three classrooms in a house that stood where Frederik Langes gate 14 is today. The two year educational programme comprised the following subjects: writing, mathematics, Norwegian, history, geography, religion, Latin, Greek, German and English (optional). The first headmaster was Frederik Lange. The Norwegian system of education has evolved continually since the 1830s, hence the school has been known under the following names: