Hyperion Lyceum Explained

Hyperion Lyceum
Address:Badhuiskade 361, Amsterdam
Founded:2011
Denomination:algemeen bijzonder
Type:Public[1] Gymnasium and Atheneum
Rector:Elly Loman (2018-2023)Joost Termeer (2023-2024)Dick Looyé (2024-)
Enrollment:~800
Faculty:32

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.

Notes and References

  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. http://www.archdaily.com/418381/ "Hyperion Lyceum / Burton Hamfelt Architectuur "
  3. http://www.parool.nl/parool/nl/4036/AMSTERDAM-NOORD/article/detail/1870735/2011/04/05/Nieuwe-school-voor-kind-met-hoge-Cito-score.dhtml "Nieuwe school voor kind met hoge Cito-score"