Type Public Website c3.ort.org.il/ganyavne | Established 1998 Founded 1998 | |
Ort Itzhak Rabin (sometimes referred to as Ort Gan Yavne) is a pluralistic high school and junior high school in Gan Yavne, Israel. It was founded in 1998 as the first high school in the town of Gan Yavne, after years students from the town studied in the relatively close town of Gedera.
The students are mostly from Gan Yavne, but some come from the nearby Moshav Bitzaron. The school has high rates of Bagrut graduates and fairly high IDF recruitments stat.
It has the following division into classes: Computer Programming (including Cyber security), Biology (with the opportunity of expanding it with one of the following: Jewish thought, Arts, Geography, Theater & Journalism), Biotechnology and Humanities (Psychology). The school offers arabic which is studied as a foreign language alongside English (the school is one of the few who teaches 7 units level Bagrut in it).
The school's football field was more than doubled in size in construction works that started in November 2005 and were finished in October 2006. The nearby open field north to the basketball & volleyball arena was turned into a 2nd parking lot and was added to the school's property during 2009. The school's Junior High building's classes are used as a voting booths during national and local elections.
Since 2010 the school has a robotics team who achieved worldwide prizes. The school's auditorium is used in Shabbat as the local small community of Reform Jews' Synagogue. The school's basketball arena is also used by the local basketball team, Hapoel Gan Yavne, who plays in the Liga Bet minor league's southern division.