Goethe-Gymnasium, Frankfurt

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Goethe-Gymnasium is a secondary school in the city of Frankfurt am Main in Germany. It is situated near the Hauptbahnhof.

It is currently the only state funded school in Germany that offers students the option of taking International Baccalaureate examination. However, contrary to the IBO's IB programme, the final exam is offered in year 13, not year 12.

The Goethe-Gymnasium offers Japanese as a third foreign language, which is rare in Germany.

[edit] History

The Städtisches Gymnasium was founded in 1520, and split into Goethe-Gymnasium and Lessing-Gymnasium in 1897. In 1969, it became the first school in Hesse to offer bilingual lessons, which were in German and English.