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Hyperion Lyceum

Coordinates: 52°23′8.32″N 4°54′21.03″E / 52.3856444°N 4.9058417°E / 52.3856444; 4.9058417
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Hyperion Lyceum
Address
Map
Badhuiskade 361, Amsterdam
Information
TypePublic[1] Gymnasium and Atheneum
Denominationalgemeen bijzonder
Founded2011
RectorElly Loman (2018-2023)

Joost Termeer (2023-2024)

Dick Looyé (2024-)
Faculty32
Enrollment~800
Websitewww.hyperionlyceum.nl
Hyperion Lyceum in may 2022

The Hyperion Lyceum is a secondary school in Amsterdam which offers both gymnasium and atheneum streams. It opened in fall 2011; since 2012 it has been located in Overhoeks in Amsterdam-Noord, in a temporary modular building designed for it by Burton Hamfelt Architectuur.[2] The school is distinguished by using cross-curricular projects for some of the instruction, and offers special courses in great thinkers, lifestyle informatics, drama, and logic and rhetoric.[3] Since 2018 it is located at Badhuiskade 361, Amsterdam-Noord.

References

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  1. ^ A public (openbare) school in the Netherlands is a school which receives only state funding, as opposed to special schools, which often receive religious funding too. See also: Schoolstrijd
  2. ^ "Hyperion Lyceum / Burton Hamfelt Architectuur ", ArchDaily, August 24, 2013.
  3. ^ "Nieuwe school voor kind met hoge Cito-score", Het Parool, April 5, 2011 (in Dutch)

52°23′8.32″N 4°54′21.03″E / 52.3856444°N 4.9058417°E / 52.3856444; 4.9058417