About Herning Gymnasium 

The school was founded in 1923 and the first 16 students graduated in 1926. Herning was only a small town at that time, but both the area and the town have been developing fast through the years.

Now Herning Gymnasium has 920 students and 100 teachers and other staff members.

The principal is mr. Soeren Broendum, who was appointed in 1988.

The school is of course a part of the Danish educational system. It is an upper secondary education for boys and girls aged 16-19 years. The school offers different branches of study. The four main branches are

1) Language

2) Science

3) Social science

4) Arts (music and drama)

The school is located in a very up-to-date building complex. There are classrooms, laboratories, sport facilities, library and media centre and study rooms for both students and teachers. There are internet facilities in the whole building.

About the Danish educational system

You can read here about the Danish educational system in general and you can find a fact-sheet on the upper secondary school here

IB Diploma Programme at Herning Gymnasium 

Education Centre Herning (hhx and htx) and Herning Gymnasium (stx) are working as collaborating partner schools to be able to offer the IB (International Baccalaureate) Diploma Programme. The education is taught in English and is internationally recognized as a pre-qualification for university studies.

It is our aim to be able to provide the students with this opportunity as the Herning area is comprised of many large companies with employees representing many different countries. It is of great importance that the children of these internationally oriented employees can receive an education in the community in which the parents work. Both Herning Municipality and the companies within the area support this initiative.

Herning Gymnasium is a candidate school for the IB programme. This school is pursuing authorization as an IB World School.  These schools share a common philosophy – a commitment to high quality, challenging, and international education that Herning Gymnasium believe s is important for our students. The school must partly be approved by the international IB-organisation in Geneva, and partly by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order to offer the education. For further Information about the IB-organisation please visit www.ibo.org.

We have employed Ms. Kelli Nørgaard as IB program coordinator. She is very experienced with IB from her former employment as a leader of a school in Texas, USA.

We expect to be approved to offer the IB Diploma Programme  as of 2011.