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Delft Delft () is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, Netherlands. It is located between Rotterdam, to the southeast, ...

Pijnacker Pijnacker () is a town in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is bordered Zoetermeer to the north, by Nootdorp to the northwest, by Delfgauw to the southwest, by Rotterdam (specifically Overschie) to the south and by Berkel en Rodenrijs to th ...

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Stanislaus Kostka Stanisław Kostka S.J. (28 October 1550 – 15 August 1568) was a Polish novice of the Society of Jesus. He is venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Stanislaus Kostka (as distinct from his namesake, the 11th-century Bishop of Kraków S ...

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private Private or privates may refer to: Music * " In Private", by Dusty Springfield from the 1990 album ''Reputation'' * Private (band), a Denmark-based band * "Private" (Ryōko Hirosue song), from the 1999 album ''Private'', written and also recorde ...

Catholic

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s located in

, and Rijswijk, in the province of

, in the Netherlands. Saint Stanislas College itself was founded in Delft as a Gymnasium in 1948 by the Society of Jesus. When other surrounding schools needed to work together to secure funding they joined to form a conglomerate. In 2007, there were 4,253 students. It is the third largest school in Delft, after the Christian Lyceum Delft and Grotius College. The College is part of the international network of Jesuit schools.

History

When the college was founded, it was one of seven Jesuit schools in the Netherlands. The others were: St Willibrord College in Katwijk, which became

Catholic Comprehensive School, Breul Catholic Comprehensive School, Breul, is a Catholic secondary school for VMBO, HAVO, Atheneum and Gymnasium, near Zeist. It is one of the colleges founded by the Society of Jesus in the Netherlands, in 1831, and has undergone several moves since t ...

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in Amsterdam; Maartenscollege, Groningen;

Aloysius College, The Hague Aloysius College, The Hague, was a secondary school in The Hague, in the Netherlands. The school was founded by the Jesuits in 1917 and expanded to include secondary school, grammar school, high school, and "gifted education." The last Jesuits lef ...

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Canisius College, Nijmegen Canisius College, Nijmegen, is a Catholic school in Nijmegen, in the Netherlands. It has departments for VMBO, HAVO, athenaeum, and gymnasium. The school offers "bridging" for foreign students who enter without fluency in Dutch. The school is ...

. The group had the acronym 'WIMACS'. In the 1980s and 1990s, with the exception of St Stanislas College, control of the schools was transferred to the local government, and because of mergers with other conglomerates, eventually those other schools lost their affiliation with the Jesuits.

Locations

The conglomerate has seven schools: * ''Westplantsoen'' in

is the main location where Saint Stanislas College was founded by the Jesuits. Lessons there are taught at the Hoger algemeen voortgezet onderwijs (HAVO) and Voorbereidend wetenschappelijk onderwijs (VWO) levels. It has about 1800 students. * ''Reinier de Graafpad'' teaches the Voorbereidend middelbaar beroepsonderwijs (VMBO) and the HAVO for the first three years. After taking the HAVO, students can transfer to another secondary school. It has approximately 750 students. * ''Krakeelpolderweg'' teaches the VMBO and has about 440 students. * ''Pijnacker'' teaches the VMBO, HAVO, and VWO and has about 1250 students. * ''Lodewijk Makeblijde College'' in Rijswijk has been part of the organization since 2008.Index
from StanislasCollege.nl, retrieved 14 September 2013

Chapel

St Stanislas Chapel ( nl, Sint Stanislaskapel) is outside the front entrance to the college. The foundation stone was laid on 21 June 1955. It was consecrated on 13 November 1956, the anniversary of St Stanislas, by the

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, Martinus Jansen. The architect of the chapel, which was designed in the style of the Bossche School, was Jan van der Laan.

Notable alumni

Hans van Heijningen J.G.C. (Hans) van Heijningen (born 15 March 1953) is a Dutch politician. He was party secretary of the Socialist Party (Netherlands), Socialist Party (SP), a position comparable to the post of chairman in other parties. Before holding this offi ...

(graduated 1972), Socialist Party politician *

Peter Tetteroo Peter Tetteroo (born 1963) is a Dutch journalist and filmmaker. Tetteroo has worked as a senior director for world wide broadcasters since 1987. He has travelled to many countries in Europe, North America, North and South America, Africa, Asia ...

(graduated 1981), journalist *

Theo Verbey Theo Verbey (5 July 1959 – 13 October 2019) was a Dutch composer. Biography Theo Verbey was a Dutch contemporary classical composer whose music is performed by orchestras and ensembles throughout the world. His style could be considered to ...

(graduated 1977), composer *

Jessie Jazz Vuijk Jessie Jazz Vuijk (born 22 January 1995) is a Dutch model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Nederland 2015 and represented the Netherlands at the Miss Universe 2015 pageant. Personal life Vuijk was born in Rotterdam. She gra ...

(graduated 2011), model

Gallery

File:Stanislas.JPG, Statue of

by Albert Termote File:Stanislascollege in Delft, with statue of Cyrano Bergerac.jpg, Statue of Cyrano Bergerac by Arie Teeuwisse File:Stanislas6.JPG, Chapel near the Stanislascollege File:Stanislas7.JPG, Sculpture above the entrance of the college chapel File:Sint Josef Standbeeld.JPG, Statue of St Joseph in the college chapel

References

External links

St Stanislas College site
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