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Ekzarch Yosif Foreign Language School (GPCHE "Еkzarch Yosif“) is a secondary school in Razgrad.

History
Towards the end of the 19th century the local community of Razgrad took the decision of removing the school to a new building. The project was commisioned to the Austrian architect Friedrich Grünanger and was carried out within two years. The new baroque styled school building opened for the first time its doors to all-boy classes  over the  1885/1886 school year. In 1895/96 the course of study was extended by adding a seventh class to the existing curriculum with which the class school became part of the group of nine national all-boy full-curriculum secondary schools. On 7 April 1902 the school was titled Full-Curriculum Regional Boys' Secondary School to the name of Ekzarch Yosif I on the occasion of 25 years of public benefit activity and with the personal blessing of the Bulgarian Exarchate  Joseph I of Bulgaria. In 1890 at the school was set up the first Marxism self-education society in Razgrad and its countryside, subsequently marking the  International Workers' Day.

Throughout the dfferent stages of its existence the secondary school had various official names, "Nikola Vaptsarov" being the one it had from 1948 to 1991.

The Secondary school today
The original old building of the Secondary school of Razgrad holds the status of a cultural monument of local significance.

The school works one shift.