Gymnasium or boarding school - We offer you and your child a valuable addition to your parental upbringing by giving your child - in addition to an excellent school education - decisive intellectual, cultural and social impulses on the basis of our Christian image of man. The triad of “Head. Heart. Character.” shows the claim that we set ourselves. As an independent boarding school, we naturally offer our students excellent preparation for their Abitur. Our Abitur results have been consistently better than the national average for years. However, the education offered at Gaesdonck goes far beyond the curriculum of the grammar school. Gaesdonck’s renowned courses of excellence are a very special offer – and unique in many respects: on a university seminar level, they offer high school students early intensive preparation for a successful course of study in the fields of art/design, economics and medicine.

Benefit, Goal of this course :
- Abitur grade point average 2.0 (0.25 – 0.5 points better than the state average)

- Individual support concepts: promotion of the gifted

Through a relaxed but high-performing environment, the Catholic boarding school Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck offers students an extraordinary framework to develop individual talents, ensuring the best chances of future success.

The Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck is located in the „green west“ of Germany near the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region. Embedded in a rural environment, our spacious, well-kept campus combines traditional monastery architecture and modern buildings to create an inviting ambience. Beyond noise, hustle and bustle, Gaesdonck offers its students a positive, lively environment for focused work, personal development and well-being.

Curriculum :

The educational offer at Gaesdonck goes far beyond the normal high school curriculum. In-house music practice rooms, art studios, an attached riding hall, an indoor swimming pool, two sports halls, our own mountain hut in Switzerland and much more complete the school offer of the boarding school. Above all, the 'Advanced Classes', the excellence courses in the upper school, are special - and in many aspects unique in Germany - offers: At the academic proseminar level, they offer intensive preparation for a course of study or a career in the university even before the Abitur fields of architecture, design, art, economy and medicine.

Classroom Hour : 

- Classes until 1:30 p.m. 

-Study time from 2:30-5 p.m. with 2 teachers

- Campus time from 5 p.m. onwards.