Gyeongbuk Office of Education Approves Late High School Admission Screening

Kimcheon Jungang High School Also Changes from Boys' School to Coeducational

The Gyeongbuk Office of Education (Superintendent Lim Jong-sik) has approved the admission guidelines for 110 high schools for the second semester of the 2024 academic year.


Among the high schools for the second semester, 107 non-standardized general high schools have a total of 599 classes and 13,678 students, consisting of 3,821 boys' schools, 3,716 girls' schools, and 6,141 coeducational schools.

Gyeongbuk Office of Education.

Gyeongbuk Office of Education.

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Additionally, Gyeongbuk Foreign Language High School, a specialized high school, will select 125 students across 5 classes, while autonomous private high schools Kimcheon High School (8 classes, 240 students) and Pohang Steel High School (10 classes, 300 students) will recruit a total of 540 students.


Kimcheon Jungang High School in Kimcheon will change from a boys' school to coeducational, and Geumo Girls' High School in Gumi will change its name to Gumi Jeil High School and also switch to coeducational recruitment.


Six schools, including Seongju High School, Yakmok High School, Yeongnam Samyuk High School, Yeongyang Girls' High School, Yecheon Girls' High School, and Pungsan High School, will recruit students on a nationwide basis.


The Gyeongbuk Office of Education will complete the announcement of admission guidelines for 14 general high schools (2,737 students) in the standardized region (Pohang City) by September, concluding the schedule for the entire 2024 high school admission guidelines and officially starting the high school admission process.



Lee Yun-hwa, Director of Secondary Education at the Gyeongbuk Office of Education, said, “With the launch of the 4th generation NEIS, we have developed a dedicated online high school admission system for Gyeongbuk Province. We will implement a more convenient and reliable admission process to strongly support students, parents, and teachers in high school admissions.”


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