The Gymnasium Wertingen is located in the

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Wertingen Wertingen () is a town in the district of Dillingen in Bavaria, Germany. It is located along the river Zusam in 13 km east of Dillingen, and 28 km northwest of Augsburg Augsburg ( , ; ; ) is a city in the Bavaria, Bavarian part o ...

. The High-School is attended by around 950 pupils. It is the biggest high school in the county of Dillingen.

History

The High-School established at 26.11.1965. This was by the county council, which decided to build a new school. In October the same year the school began to teach children. At first there were 78 pupils and 13 teachers. The first headteacher was Ernst Rehle. In 1979 the School Association was founded, 12 years later it got founded again. The school offered student exchanges with a school in

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in France, with the

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and the Highland Park High School in

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, USA. In 1997 the "AG Tanz und Gymnastik" won the Bavarian championship. In 2003 the school celebrated its 1500th high-school graduate. One year later the G8 was launched.

Awards

In 2009 the school got named "School without racism - school with courage". With the ''Echo'' the school has one of the most successful

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s in Germany. It often was a winner in Bavarian competitions.

References

External links

Gymnasium Wertingen website
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