- Võru State Upper Secondary school belongs into the network of state upper secondary schools.
2024/2025 we celebrate school
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Mission
We are an open, academic, and thoughtful educational institution that offers meaningful choices, values effort, fosters good relationships, and encourages a continuous desire to improve.
Vision
A strong educational foundation, together with the roots of the home country, is a solid foundation and a springboard for life ahead.
State covered costs
- Free school lunch
- Reimbursement of transportation expenses
- Reimbursement of accommodation costs
student companies in the past (and counting)
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students have been involved
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School cat Johnannes II
Students' satisfaction
- I am happy with the organization of the preliminary examinations’ week
- I am pleased with the organization of the elective subjects’ week
- I like that the lessons at our school are 75 min long
- I was satisfied with my first elective course
- My teachers are doing their job well
- Our form teacher does the job well
- I am happy with the hobby groups at our school
- My classmates are friendly and caring
- I feel good at school
- I like our school
- The education we receive at our school will enable me to do well in the future
- I would recommend our school to other students
3 study periods:
9-10
weeks of normal teaching
10-11
different subjects
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week
week of preliminary exams
(4 preliminary exams a week)
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week of elective courses
(aprox, 50 different courses)
Elective courses at Võru Gymnasium
national defence entrepreneurship robotics psychology marketing web design photography first aid digital marketing healthy eating sports games multimedia 3d modelling folk dance archaeology money wisdom hunting volleyball concert design urban ecology ABBA hits world religions argot magic web design
- Entrepreneurship Education Promoter of the Year 2017 under the Ministry of Education and Research's Entrepreneurship Education Programme "Success and Action".
- Võru City Educational and Cultural Institution of the Year 2017
- Innove and the Ministry of Education and Research "School of the Year 2019" - 2nd place winner
- Estonian Youth Work Centre and the Ministry of Education and Research "Student Council of the Year 2019″
- Good School Promoter 2019, School of Values 2019
- Harno and the Ministry of Education and Research "School of the Year 2020" competition
- Deed of the Year 2020 in Võru
History of the school building
2015
Võru Gümnaasium (Võru Grammar School) starts work in the renovated manor house and new annex building
2014
Renovation and construction work starts to build a state secondary school
1960
Capital renovation will include the conversion of the building to central heating and the construction of a silicate-brick annexe.
1930
The building is the starting point of the first elementary school of Võru city, the Peterson School (later Võru I Elementary School).
1920
Võru teachers' seminar starts
1910
A second floor is built on the house
1887
The county school becomes an urban school
1804
Võru 3-class German-language Kreiskool is opened
1792
German-language mixed elementary school in the city starts in the Herder's House
~1750
Construction of the Võru Manor House begins
