BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT
GYMNÁZIUM DĚČÍN
Our school is the biggest ‘grammar school’, in
Czech called ‘gymnázium‘, in Děčín District.
It offers a four or eight-year study program and
prepares its students for university studies of all
branches, in the Czech Republic or abroad. In
this form the school has been existing since
1996 and its founder is the Ústecký Region,
which means that we get money from there, not
from the town of Děčín. The management is
formed by the headmaster, Mr. Václav
Lešanovský and his two deputies.
There are currently 500 students ( aged 11 to 20) in 17 classes and 43 teachers. In a class there are maximally 32 students
and 1 teacher. Of course, we have got also other employees: two economists, several cleaners and a very nice school keeper.
We provide general education, but one of our priorities is the study of foreign languages. The main and compulsory language
is English, students have three or four 45-minute lessons a week, there are also optional seminars in the 3rd and 4th year of the
upper gymnasium. Next, students usually study German as their second language, some choose French. Russian and Spanish
are elective seminars in the last two grades. We cooperate with bilingual Gymnasium of Friedrich Schiller in German Pirna,
situated close to our town. Every year their entrance exams for Czech applicants from the whole country are managed by our
school. There has been going on also a long-time cooperation including students exchanges with Lycée Monge in the
beautiful city Nantes in France. Regularly we organize study/travel one-week stays in the UK, sports courses in Croatia or
trips/ski courses in Austria and Germany. We are proud of the two school choirs a lot since they are very popular in our
region and have competed at international choir festivals. This year they performed, for example, in Spain and Mexico.
There is a link to our website in Czech language: http://www.gymnaziumdc.cz/
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HISTORY OF OUR SCHOOL
It all began in 1898, when the town of Děčín was allowed by the Ministry of Education to
build a school at its own expenses. Actually it all truly began in 1899 on 15th September,
when the grammar school was opened with only 6 teachers, including its principal Anton
Schlosser. Before becoming the principal, PhDr Anton Schlosser was a teacher in one of
Prague's grammar schools.
At the beginning our school did not have a character of today's grammar school, it was a
combination of grammar school and ‘real school’ – it was a type of school focused on
languages and science. Each student chose which way he wanted to go in the 3rd grade. First
girls came to the school in 1906, but it took 13 more years for them to be equal students with
boys. Each year the school was becoming more and more popular until 1908. That year the
school became a state school.