Hildegardis-Schule Bochum

Hildegardis-Schule
Address
Klinikstrasse 1 Bochum , D-44791 Germany
Information
School type	Gymnasium
Opened	1860
Head of school	Werner Backhaus and Wolfgang Schmidt
Teaching staff	85[1]
Number of pupils	1150
Language	German and French
Website	www.hildegardis-bochum.de

The Hildegardis-Schule is a secondary school in the city of Bochum, Germany.

The school was founded in 1860 by a young Bochum teacher, Henriette von Noël, as a private school for girls. An extension was built in 1901 and in 1916, the school was named after naturalist, theologian and author, Hildegard von Bingen.^[2] There is a statue of Hildegard von Bingen in front of the main entrance.

Today, the school is a public Gymnasium for boys and girls. The Hildegardis-Schule was one of the first schools in Germany to offer French bilingual education. History, politics and geography are taught in French and students may graduate with a French baccalaureat as well as an Abitur. In 2008, the school was certified as a "Europaschule" (de) (English: Europa School) by the Ministry of Schools of North Rhine-Westphalia.^{[nb 1]}

The Hildegardis-Schule has a student exchange program with schools in

• Wolverhampton in England
• Lyon, Duttlenheim, Châlons-en-Champagne, Châteauneuf-sur-Sarthe, Ile de la Réunion in France
• Vicenza in Italy
• Piekary Śląskie in Poland
• Be'er Sheva in Israel

• Hildegardis-Schule Bochum Official school website
• School profile

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