Tran Dai Nghia High School For The Gifted, HCMC, Vietnam

Tran Dai Nghia High School for the Gifted (Vietnamese: THPT Chuyên Trần Đại Nghĩa) is an academically selective public school for students from year 6 to 12 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Established in 2000, Tran Dai Nghia High School was the first partially state-funded, semi-boarding school specializing in various subjects, especially in foreign languages in Ho Chi Minh city. The school requires entrance exams for admission (with a 10% acceptance rate). The school has many academic facilities, including a library, 2 computer labs, an audiovisual room and a multimedia room. The school also contains one dining hall, a canteen and rooms for students to rest between classes. The school also has two basketball courts, three badminton courts as well as a volleyball court. In addition there are some basketball half-courts for students to practice inside the school ground. There are 6 blocks in the school: the main block in the center for the school managing board; 5 A, B, C, D, E blocks for classrooms. Additionally, block E is also used as a dining hall. As the number of students has been increasing every year, the number of classrooms and teachers has also risen. In 2015, the school opened the second center, at District 2 for only grades 6-7. With this, the entrance exam now accept 525-600 students each year instead of the previous 300-400 students per year. The new center includes 1 computers-lab room with 50 computers. Two out of four vice-principals are now working at the second center. Tran Dai Nghia high school's students are known to have high level of fluency in English, and the school has a reputation for being one of the best education institutions for foreign languages in Ho Chi Minh City. Aside from English, high school students majoring in social subjects are also taught French or German as a second language. A growing number of study abroad scholarships are won by students, a fact on which the school prides itself.