The Kantonsschule Küsnacht, former ''Seminar Küsnacht'', is a ''Kantonsschule'', or ''Mittelschule'' in the municipality of

Küsnacht Küsnacht () is a municipality in the district of Meilen in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland. History Küsnacht is first mentioned in 1188 as ''de Cussenacho''. Earliest findings of settlement date back to the Stone Age. There are also findi ...

Canton Zurich The canton of Zurich is an administrative unit ( canton) of Switzerland, situated in the northeastern part of the country. With a population of (as of ), it is the most populous canton of Switzerland. Zurich is the ''de facto'' capital of the ca ...

. It was founded in 1832 and is the oldest school for teacher-education in the canton as well as a very selective school. In 2009, the school was visited by around 510 students. The current head teacher is Corinne Elsener. The school offers a ''musisches Profil'', with a strong focus on

music Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all hum ...

, and a ''neusprachliches Profil'', with the focus being on modern languages, such as

Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, a Romance ethnic group related to or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance languag ...

and

Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas **Spanish cuisine **Spanish history **Spanish culture ...

. The Kantonsschule Küsnacht offers a lot of extra curricular activities for their students. People can learn dance, parkour and take classes to prepare the

numerus clausus ''Numerus clausus'' ("closed number" in Latin) is one of many methods used to limit the number of students who may study at a university. In many cases, the goal of the ''numerus clausus'' is simply to limit the number of students to the maximu ...

. Next to that the student have the possibility to brew beer in their fifth year at the Kantonsschule. The high school is also famous for making their own wine. Behind the main building is a big field with a lot of grapes and the student cut the grapes that will later be made into a good, local wine.

Campus

The campus of the Kantonsschule Küsnacht is quite big. There is a very modern library, a big modern building, as well as two older buildings (one of them being the famous Johanniterhaus) and a cantina; a place where people eat lunch. Just next to the school there is a church, but they are not affiliated anymore. The school is also very close to lake Zurich, so students often go to spend lunch next to the shore and swim during the break.

Selectivity

The Kantonsschule Küsnacht - as well as all other Kantonsschulen in Zurich - is a very selective school. Only 18% of the Swiss youth gets accepted in this kind of high schools. To get accepted at the Kantonsschule, one has to go to an exam, called th
"Gymi-prüfung"
a very selective exam that examines the subjects German and math for the "Langzeitgymnasium" and the same subjects as well as French for the "Kurzzeitgymnasium". Once accepted at the school there is a testing time, called the Probezeit, in which only the best students have the chance to stay at the school (out of an average class of 26 people, about 3 get kicked out even after having a good grade on the exam). If a student is twice in a row almost failing, the student has to repeat the year. Does it happen again, the student has to leave the school.

Academics

The Kantonsschule Küsnacht is known to be an artistic school, by having profiles that mostly profiles on the arts. Students have to choose a major when joining the school. The major that kids can choose of are music, arts, English, Spanish as well as Italian. With all their differences, every student in every major has to attend English, German, French, History, Geography, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Music, Arts, Economic and Law, Physical education and Math classes. {{DEFAULTSORT:Kantonsschule Kusnacht Upper secondary schools in the Canton of Zürich Educational institutions established in 1832 1832 establishments in Switzerland Küsnacht