Sir-Karl-Popper-Schule

Sir Karl Popper School
building's entrance in 2009
Address
Map
Wiedner Gürtel 68
1040 Vienna
Coordinates48°11′05″N 16°22′07″E / 48.184682°N 16.368706°E / 48.184682; 16.368706
Information
School typePublic school for highly gifted students
Established1998 (1998)
HeadmasterMag. Dr. Edwin Scheiber
Grades9–12
Gendercoed
Number of students188 (2019/'20)
Class size24
Websitewww.popperschule.at/english

The Sir Karl Popper School is an experimental public school for highly gifted students in Vienna, Austria.[1]

The school is a branch of Wiedner Gymnasium with federally granted experimental status for gifted education of students in grades 9-12. There are two classes with 24 students per year. Admittance is based on the results at a battery of IQ tests conducted by an external institution.[2][3]

  1. ^ oe1.orf.at. "Wie Hochbegabte gefördert werden". oe1.orf.at (in German). Retrieved 2023-08-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ "Sir-Karl-Popper: Keine Langeweile für Hochbegabte". DER STANDARD (in Austrian German). Retrieved 2023-08-17.
  3. ^ Die mündige Schule (in German). Strolz Matthias, Unger Michael. 2015. pp. 73–84. ISBN 9783950402704.