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It is one of the few Catholic gymnasiums in the Netherlands, founded in 1895. Originally a Jesuit school, it is named after the founder of the Jesuit Order Ignatius of Loyola. The school is fairly small and has a student population of about 900 with 70 staff.{{Citation needed|date=August 2011}}

According to the Dutch Education Inspectorate, the Ignatius Gymnasium is as a very good school across the board.^[3] In the first three years, 2% has to repeat a class while 76% of the survivors passes their exams at once with an average grade of 6.9.{{Citation needed|date=August 2011}} All this is considered to be better than average.^[4] According to YELP, Ignatius ranks first among middle and high schools in Amsterdam.^[5] The Dutch magazine Elsevier chooses the Ignatius Gymnasium for several years{{When|date=August 2011}} as one of the best schools in the Netherlands.{{Citation needed|date=August 2011}} The school was elected as the best school in the province of North Holland in 2004.{{Citation needed|date=August 2011}} In 2010, Elsevier placed the school alongside ‘The winners of 2010, least repeaters and best exam results’.{{Citation needed|date=August 2011}}

The school newspaper is called De Harpoen.

Notable old-Ignatians include beer magnate {{Interlanguage link multi|Henry Pierre Heineken|nl}} from the Heineken company; television personality Ivo Niehe; his brother Eric Niehe, Olympic rower and former Dutch Ambassador in India; conductor and recorder player Frans Brüggen; conductor Edo de Waart; Paul Josef Crutzen, a Nobel Prize winner; linguist Pieter Seuren; architect {{Interlanguage link multi|André van Stigt|nl}}; journalist {{Interlanguage link multi|Haye Thomas|nl}}; {{Interlanguage link multi|Gerard van Westerloo|nl}}, former editor of De Groene Amsterdammer; Bernard Delfgaauw, professor of Philosophy at the University of Groningen; former Minister of Social Affairs Charles van Rooy; Piet Steenkamp, founder of the CDA; Rad Kortenhorst, former president of the House of Representatives; Lambert Meertens, former chairman of the PSP; {{Interlanguage link multi|Bernard Wientjes|nl}}, former chairman of the employers' organization VNO-NCW; Bertus Aafjes, a writer; Paul Biegel, author of children's books; Frans van der Lugt, Jesuit priest murdered in Homs, Syria; and Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and Joseph Luns, both former Secretaries-General of NATO.

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• {{nl}} Ignatius Gymnasium

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