Frogner School ( and subsequently ''Frogner Realskole og Gymnas'', commonly known as ''Frogner skole'') was a

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. The school was a continuation of the Gjertsen School, which had been founded in 1869. Gjertsen School moved from St. Olavs Plads to

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at Frogner in 1899 and was renamed Frogner School in 1900. The school included a '' Realskole'' and a '' Gymnasium'', which prepared pupils for the university entrance exam. As it was a private school and located in the wealthy borough of Frogner, and also because few people attended either ''Realskole'' or ''Gymnasium'' in those times, it almost exclusively served the higher

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. The school was sold to Christiania municipality in 1918, and was closed in 1970. Its building in Niels Juels gate 52 was subsequently taken over by its neighbour, the

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.Haffner, Einar, ''Gjertsens skole, Frogner skole 1869–1929'', Oslo, 1929

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