Gerrit Rietveld College

The Gerrit Rietveld College is a high school in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Around 1.250 students are educated at the school. The school is named after the Dutch architect Gerrit Rietveld. The following Dutch education levels are offered at the school: Gymnasium, atheneum, havo and mavo.

History
The Gerrit Rietveld College is the product of a merge between College De Klop and College Blaucapel in 2005. The school building from College De Klop was demolished and a new neighbourhood was built on the area.

The new merged school was housed in the building of College Blaucapel for 10 years. A new school building was constructed in the backyard of the old building. The school moved to the new building during the Christmas holidays in 2014/2015.

Education
The students in the building have their own classroom spaces, so called 'domains'. As opposed to most schooling in the Netherlands, the teacher comes to the students instead of the other way around. This way the students have their own place in the school building.

The school is the only school in Utrecht offering Technasium education. In this education trajectory students get an additional subject called Research & Development (R&D). The goal is to introduce students to technical professions.

Architecture and Art
The old building that the school left in the end of 2014 has been built in 1964–1965 to a design of the architect Kees Elffers.