Gymnasium Jur Hronec

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{{Infobox school

| name = Spojená škola Novohradská - ZŠ Košická, Gymnázium Jura Hronca

| image =

| established = 1959

| head_label = Headmaster

| head = Renáta Karácsonyová

| city = Bratislava

| country = Slovakia

| staff = approx. 100

| enrolment = approx. 1200

| language = English

Slovak

| gender = Mixed

| website = http://www.gjh.sk

}}

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Gymnázium Jura Hronca (GJH) is a gymnasium (grammar school) in Bratislava, Slovakia.

The school focuses on the study of natural sciences, mathematics, and computer sciences. However, its affiliation with the International Baccalaureate, an active bi-lingual (English – Slovak) programme and the option to study several foreign languages such as French and German, the school has a strong reputation for the study of foreign languages.

In the school year 2005/2006, GJH launched lower programs of IB Primary Years Programme and IB Middle Years Programme.

The school has been recently known as the "Spojená škola Gymnázium Jura Hronca a ZŠ Košická" (United school of the Gymnázium Jura Hronca and the Košická Primary School) after a merge with the primary school Základná škola a osemročné gymnázium Košická sharing the same building.Gymnázium Jura Hronca, March 13, 2011, this article

History

The school was founded on January 9, 1959, as an 11-year secondary school. In the school year 1969/70 the school was granted the status of a Gymnasium, named after the Slovak mathematician Jur Hronec.

In 1997 the school donated the head of a mummified Egyptian man to the Slovak National Museum.{{cite journal | last1=Šefčáková | first1=Alena | last2=Hudec | first2=Jozef | last3=Strouhal | first3=Eugen | last4=Thurzo | first4=Milan | title=A New Egyptian Human Mummified Head in the Slovak National Museum, Bratislava | journal=The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology | volume=91 | issue=1 | date=2005 | issn=0307-5133 | doi=10.1177/030751330509100115 | pages=190–197 }}

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