Ninth Belgrade Gymnasium

Ninth Belgrade Gymnasium
Ninth Belgrade Gymnasium
	IX Gymnasium "Mihailo Petrović-Alas",
Location
	New Belgrade, Serbia
Information
Type	Gymnasium
Established	1961
Website	www.devetagimnazija.edu.rs

The IX Gymnasium "Mihailo Petrović-Alas" (Serbian: Deveta gimnazija "Mihailo Petrović-Alas; Девета гимназија "Михајло Петровић-Алас") is a gymnasium located in New Belgrade, Serbia, established in 1961, and named after the Serbian mathematician Mihailo Petrović-Alas.

Public reputation

The school has a reputation of being very academically demanding, with high entry standards: for example, in 2005, an applicant needed a score of at least 96 out of 100 points on the Serbian High school examination to enroll in the school, the highest score of any high school in Belgrade that year.^[1]

The school has earned an excellent reputation over many decades and has been called a philosophical school since Đinđić's schooldays because of its liberal-humanistic atmosphere.^[2]

Notable alumni

Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia 2001-2003^[3]
Dragan Đilas, Mayor of Belgrade
Čedomir Jovanović, Serbian politician; started his high-school career in the IXth gymnasium, but then transferred to Treća ekonomska school^[4]
Verica Rakocević, fashion designer
Igor Rakočević, basketball player
Vanja Bulić, journalist
Marica Josimčević, writer
Neda Arnerić, actress
Ivana Maksimović, sport shooter
Stefan Arsenijević, Film director
Saša M.Savić, Artist