Daegu Science High School () is a gifted school located in

Daegu Daegu (; ), formerly spelled Taegu and officially Daegu Metropolitan City (), is a city in southeastern South Korea. It is the third-largest urban agglomeration in South Korea after Seoul and Busan; the fourth-largest List of provincial-level ci ...

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and t ...

. The school opened on October 26, 1987. As of 2020, it has 281 students. The school is for gifted students with talents in

mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

and sciences. The graduates of the school usually go to science or engineering schools in

KAIST KAIST (originally the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) is a national university, national research university located in Daedeok Innopolis, Daejeon, South Korea. KAIST was established by the Korean government in 1971 as the ...

, Postech,

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, and other prestigious universities in Korea and in the world.

History

*October 26, 1987 – official permission of school foundation (2 classrooms, 60 students) *March 1, 1988 – the inauguration of YoungKyun Son, as the first principal *March 3, 1988 – the first entrance ceremony *February 12, 1990 – moved to a newly built school *January 28, 1991 – the first graduation ceremony (52 students) *May 30, 1992 – altering school regulations (4 classrooms per grade, 12 classrooms in total) *September 1, 2006 – the inauguration of Chunhyun Cho, as the eighth principal *December 18, 2008 – transferred to a science gifted school *February 10, 2011 – the 21st graduation ceremony (1742 early graduates in total) *March 1, 2011 – the inauguration of Soodohn Choi, as the tenth principal *March 1, 2019 – the inauguration of Changwon Seok, as the twelfth principal

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* * {{Gifted Programs Science high schools in South Korea High schools in South Korea Educational institutions established in 1987 1987 establishments in South Korea