Grades 5 through 12 Website vjg.lt Phone +370 5 261 5436 Staff 59 | Enrollment 716 Founded 1579 Number of students 716 | |
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Established 1579; 438 years ago (1579) Principal Artūras Sederevičius, S.J. Similar Vytautas Magnus Gymnasi, Vilniaus Simono Daukanto, Vilniaus "Santaros" gimnazija, The American Internatio, Vilniaus Uzupio gimnazija | ||
Vilnius Jesuit High School is a Lithuanian gymnasium (grades 5 through 12) led by members of the Jesuit order. It is considered to be one of the most renowned schools in Lithuania and is aided by the German Foreign Office.
History
Vilnius Jesuit High School could be one of the oldest schools in Lithuania, if the current school is considered the successor to the Jesuit Collegium which was turned into Vilnius University during the confrontation between Lithuanian Protestants and Lithuanian Catholics during the Reformation period.
Collegium Vilnense Societati Jesu was established in 1570, with the first rector, Stanislaw Varševickis, S.J., teaching logic, mathematics, theology, and Hebrew. After the suppression of the Society of Jesus in 1773, the school did not reopen until 1921 with 135 boys. By 1938 there were 580 in the gymnasium. Disrupted in 1939 during the Soviet occupation, the school was reopened in its present status only in 1995 with 336 students and 54 teachers, classes 5 through 11. Lithuanian, German, and English were taught. In 1999 it received the humanities gymnasium status.