Maartenscollege, Groningen

Geschiedenis

Maartenscollege, Groningen is a secondary school in the Netherlands. The school was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1946 and is now affiliated with the Carmel College Foundation.HistoryMaartenscollege was founded by the Jesuits in 1946 at the request of the Catholic community in Groningen and the Archdiocese of Utrecht, as there were no Catholic secondary schools in the northeastern part of the Netherlands. The school was built in Haren, just south of the city of Groningen. taking as its patron that of the city, St. Martin of Tours.Between 1959 and 1969 it was a minor seminary for the Diocese of Groningen, with students boarding and attending St. Martin's College in Haren.In the autumn of 1984 St. Maartenscollege International School was founded as a separate department of St. Maartenscollege, to provide education for international students living in the north of the Netherlands, with English as the language of instruction.In 1992 St. Maartenscollege merged with Schalm Protestant Christian secondary school and became an interdenominational school with VMBO-I, secondary, grammar, and high school, now named simply "Maartenscollege". It also has Bilingual Education (TTO) at pre-university level, as well as the combination TTO+. A partially independent division of Maartenscollege opened in 2005 and is now the International School Groningen, with some classes still taken at the main school. In 1999 the building in Haren had been enlarged to include the Haren and Groningen branches together.

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