Presentation of the School

1. GIMNAZIJA ŠENTVID
Ljubljana, Slovenia

2. History
■ 3 September 1945:
Državna nižja gimnazija
■ 1947/48 - 1957/58:
XII. gimnazija Ljubljana-Šentvid
■ 1948/49: 445 students
■ 1988/89: Srednja šola za
elektroniko in naravoslovje
■ 1/9/1990: Gimnazija Šentvid

3. Students:
544 students in all 4 years
6 classes in each year (4 general and 2 athletes classes)

4. Activities:
School clubs: Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Architecture, etc.
Competitions, …
Gimnazija Šentvid prava šola zate -YouTube

5. Teachers:
App 54 teachers and assistants in 11 departments

6. Pre-school education
■ age: 1 – 6
■ not compulsory
■ public and private kindergartens
■ Public kindergartens: founded by local communities in line
with the needs of the local population.
■ various programmes: full-day, half-day and part-time
programmes
■ pre-school teachers and pre-school teacher assistants.
■ five year olds attending pre-school education was at 92% in
2016.

7. Primary education
■ nine-year primary school
■ pupils aged 6 to 15 years
■ public and private schools (less than 1 % of pupils attend
private primary schools)
■ educational institutions for SEN children, and for adults: adult
education organisations
■ compulsory and state-funded
■ local communities set up primary schools

8. Numbers for school year
2017/2018
 178, 633 children
 772 primary schools and branches
 57 specialised schools, primary school based settings
and institutions for SEN children.
 over 16, 000 teachers employed in primary education

9. Assessment and grading of knowledge
■ grades 1 and 2: descriptive grades
■ from grade 3 onwards: numerical grades 1 to 5 (1 is a negative grade
and all others are positive grades)
Age levels and grouping of pupils
■ three educational cycles; each cycle covers three grades (same age)
■ Pupils of the same grade are further grouped into classes.
■ no more than 28 pupils in one class

10. Secondary education
two to five year non-compulsory education
Divided into:
 general education, with different types of four-year gimnazija
programmes and matura course
 vocational and technical education, with educational programmes
of different levels of difficulty
2-year short programmes
3-year programmes
4-year programes (vocational matura)

11. Numbers by gender
Technical andVocational
schools
■ 73% of male pupils, mostly in
the technical fields (33% of all
male pupils) and computing
(8%)
■ 56% of female pupils mostly in
the fields of health (12% of all
female pupils), personal
services (11%) and business
and administration (10%).

12. The syllabus of general gimnazija includes:
■ Compulsory four-year subjects:
Slovenian (Italian/Hungarian) language, maths, first foreign language,
second foreign language, history, and sports
■ Compulsory subjects (1-3-year)
music, visual arts, geography, biology, chemistry, physics, psychology,
sociology, philosophy, and information science
■ Elective subjects:
the number of hours increases every year from year 2 to year 4
in the last year the hours are allocated to studying for the matura
examination.

13. Vocational and technical school syllabus
4 years (or 2 years after a completed 3-year vocational programme)
■ general subjects (40 % of total hours),
■ technical modules (25 % to 30 % of hours); some modules are
compulsory, others are elective
■ practical training, in part school based in the form of practical
lessons, in part as employer based practical training (15 % of hours)
■ interest activities, (5 % of hours)
■ open part of the programme determined by the school in
cooperation with companies (10 % of hours).

14. Sources:
■ Gimnazija Šentvid
https://www.sentvid.org/
■ THE EDUCATION SYSTEM in the Republic of Slovenia 2016/2017
https://eng.cmepius.si/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/The-Education-System-in-the-
Republic-of-Slovenia-2016-17.pdf
■ STAT’O’BOOK, StatisticalOverview of Slovenia 2018
https://www.stat.si/StatWeb/File/DocSysFile/10179/STATOBOOK_2018.pdf