Gymnasium der Stadt Kerpen

Gymnasium der Stadt Kerpen

Address

Philipp-Schneider-Straße 50171 Kerpen Rhein-Erft-Kreis North Rhine-Westphalia Germany
Coordinates	50°52′42.39″N 6°41′21.58″E / 50.8784417°N 6.6893278°E / 50.8784417; 6.6893278
Information
School type	Public Gymnasium
Founded	1968
School number	166741^[1]
Head of school	Tatjana Strucken
Grades	5–12
Gender	Coeducational
Language	Economy English, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Russian, Spanish
Slogan	Gemeinsam lernen und leben – grenzüberschreitend denken und handeln
Newspaper	Gymnasium aktuell and Educat
Website	www.gymnasiumkerpen.eu

The Gymnasium der Stadt Kerpen (German, High school of the City of Kerpen) is a Gymnasium in Kerpen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

The school was founded in 1968. In 2001, it was certified as a Europaschule (de) by the Ministry of Schools of North Rhine-Westphalia.^[nb 1]

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Facilities

The school has an auditorium, a cafeteria, a refectory, two triple gyms,^[2] a library with more than 33,000 books and CD-ROMs, band practice rooms^[2] and different school yards.

Bilingual education

Since the 1995/1996 school year, a bilingual German-English branch is offered. In grades 5 and 6, students who choose the bilingual branch have seven lessons in English a week instead of five. Geography is taught in English from grade 7, politics from grade 8 and history from grade 9.

Sixth form

In the sixth form (formerly grades 11 to 13, now grades 10 to 12) the curriculum is divided up into “social sciences”, “Mathematics and natural sciences”, “languages” and “other subjects”. Special subjects at the sixth form are pedagogy, psychology, social sciences, nutrition science, technology, foreign language correspondence English respective economy English, Italian and literature.

Vocational education foreign language correspondence

In the sixth form the students can take a vocational education as foreign language correspondent. Students who pass get, in addition to their Abitur, a finished apprenticeship/vocational education.