Bundang Senior High School (

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: 분당고등학교,

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: 盆唐高等學校), commonly referred to as Bundang Senior High School, is a

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, comprehensive, community high school located in

Bundang Bundang is a planned community in the Bundang-gu district of Seongnam, South Korea. It was developed to encourage affordable housing and urban decentralization. The community has a sports complex, a park and a youth center. Origin Bundang wa ...

, South Korea as part of the

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public schools. As of the 2015 school year, the school has an enrollment of 1,297 students and 80 classroom teachers (for a student-teacher ratio of 16.2). Prior to 2005, the school was ranked second in selectivity among its fifteen peer schools (district metrics were abolished that year and school admission reorganized into a lottery in accordance with the elimination of the high school entrance exams).

Location

Bundang High School is situated near the

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tributary, in Sunae (neighborhood),

(district),

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(province), 330 meters southeast of

Sunae Station Sunae Station is a subway station on the Bundang Line between Seohyeon Station and Jeongja Station. Its substation name is Korea Job World. At the time of the opening of the Bundang Line in 1994, this station was called Chorim Station. Places ...

on the

Bundang Line The Bundang Line or Seoul Metropolitan Subway Bundang Line (Sudogwon Jeoncheol Bundangseon 수도권 전철 분당선) was a commuter rail line of the Seoul Metropolitan Subway in the Seoul Capital Area operated by Korail. Also it refers physica ...

(yellow line), and 500 meters west-southwest of

Bundang Central Park Bundang Central Park (분당 중앙 공원) is located at the heart of the recently developed residential area, Bundang. It is one of the two big parks in Bundang, the other is Yuldong Park in Bundang-dong. It is 500 meters away from Seohyeon ...

. The school is 20 kilometers southeast of downtown

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University Admission

Despite district realignment in 2005, Bundang matriculates students each year to all three

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universities, to

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and pre-

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programs (의치계열), and to the most selective teachers college (교대). For 2005-2010 the school graduated a total of fifteen students to

KAIST The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) is a national research university located in Daedeok Innopolis, Daejeon, South Korea. KAIST was established by the Korean government in 1971 as the nation's first public, research ...

Postech Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) is a private research university in Pohang, South Korea. History POSTECH was established in 1986 in Pohang, Korea by POSCO, a steel company. POSTECH hosted POSCO's Research Institute of Sc ...

, the military academy (사관학교), and Japan's top engineering programs (일본공대).3학년 학부모총회 자료집. 2010 대학입학 합격 전략집. 분당고등학교.

Sister School

Naemyeon High School,

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, Gangwon-do (1999)

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