St.-Pius-Gymnasium

St.-Pius-Gymnasium
Address
Gerlever Weg Coesfeld , 48653 Germany
Coordinates	51°56′32″N 7°11′02″E / 51.94222°N 7.18389°E / 51.94222; 7.18389
Information
Type	Private Gymnasium school
Religious affiliation(s)	Catholicism
Patron saint(s)	Pope Pius X
Established	1953; 71 years ago (1953)
Founder	Bishop Michael Keller
Director	Dr. Norbert Just
Faculty	52
Gender	Boys (1953-1968) Co-educational (since 1969)
Enrolment	791
Website	www.piuscoe.de

St.-Pius-Gymnasium is a private Catholic Gymnasium (high school) located in Coesfeld near Münster, Germany. As of 2023^[update], the school had approximately 700 pupils.^[1]

It is named after Pope Pius X. The school is associated with the Lycée Notre-Dame in Guingamp, Brittany, France and a high school in Poole, Yorkshire, England.

The school has its own chapel and an auditorium. The whole school is a non-smoking area.

It was founded in 1953 by Bishop Michael Keller as an Internat (all-boys boarding school), in order to educate about 100 students for the priesthood.^[2] It had a fee of 100 Marks.

In April 1964 it was changed to a high school. In 1965 the school building at Gerlever Weg was built. Girls were admitted starting in 1969,^[2] and in the same year a building was erected for up to 300 students. In 1976 it became a Gymnasium. In 1979, the last of the boarding students left, and the following year a major expansion to the buildings was made.

In 1995, the architect Josef Paul Kleihues designed an extension to the building which included a music room.^[2]

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