page_title: Bergen Cathedral School
section_title: Academics
hierarchical_section_title: Bergen Cathedral School / Academics
caption_attribution_description: Inscription about Ludvig Holberg at Bergen katedralskole in Bergen, Norway
context_page_description: Bergen Cathedral School is an upper secondary school in Bergen, Norway. Located in the city centre, next to Bergen Cathedral, the school has about 850 students, 95 full-time teachers, and 5 administration personnel, including the headmaster, Lise Hårklau Holsen.
  The school is thought to have been founded in 1153 by Nicholas Breakspear, making the school the second oldest in Norway together with Oslo Cathedral School and Hamar Cathedral School, which were founded the same year, one year after the founding of Trondheim Cathedral School.
context_section_description: Of the mainline courses offered in Norwegian upper secondary schools, only the generalist line, studiespesialisering, is offered by Bergen Cathedral School. The school is the only one in Bergen offering the IB Diploma Programme, from which about forty students graduate per year. In the 2005-2006 school year, the senior year students of Bergen Cathedral School received the third best grades in Western Norway, which was the highest achieving region of Norway. The school has a reputation as a prestigious school, because of its history and high grade requirements.
caption: This plaque on the oldest extant school building in Lille Øvregaten states that Ludvig Holberg was a student here (1694 to 1702)
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