Gymnasium, in the German education system, is the most advanced and highest of the three types of German secondary schools, the others being Hauptschule (lowest) and Realschule (middle). Gymnasium strongly emphasizes academic learning, comparable to the British sixth form system or with prep schools in the United States. A student attending Gymnasium is called a Gymnasiast. In 2009/10 there were 3,094 gymnasia in Germany, with c. 2,475,000 students, resulting in an average student number of 800 students per school.
The Kolleg St. Blasien in a former Benedictine monastery
The Aloisiuskolleg
Gymnasiasts sailing a rowboat on the Unterelbe in 1959
Berlinisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster (1910)
A secondary school or high school is an institution that provides secondary education. Some secondary schools provide both lower secondary education and upper secondary education, i.e., both levels 2 and 3 of the ISCED scale, but these can also be provided in separate schools.
Main entrance of Camberwell High School, VIC, Australia
Students at First High School in Argos, Peloponnese, Greece
Pozsonyi Királyi Katolikus Gimnázium, a high school in Bratislava, Slovakia
The first taxpayer-funded public school in the United States was in Dedham, Massachusetts.