About us

Nomen est omen - In the heart of Budapest for 140 years

Hunfalvy is a secondary school with great traditions dating back to 140 years. Since its foundation it has been providing training in economics and trade in Buda only a few steps away from the bank of the Danube near the Széchenyi Chain Bridge.

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OUR STRENGTHS

Language teaching

In the school five languages are taught, three of which (English, German and French) in the bilingual system and there is special language teaching in Japanese and Russian. In the previous school year 139 of the school leavers passed 151 (!) language examinations, mostly at C1 level.

Professional training

Besides a high level academic and language tuition there is professional vocational training in economics in the school. In the first two years the students study basic economics and law and set up their own business venture, which makes it possible for them to get acquainted with the basic terminology of economics and the world of work.

International relations

The school has relations with 20 secondary schools in 15 countries of Europe. We collaborate either in EU projects, or the students travel to a school abroad every school year within the framework of several decade-long student exchange partnership programmes.

Our results

Reward from the Minister

In October 2014, Mr Zoltán Balog, the Minister for Human Resources awarded a Diploma to the Hunfalvy János Bilingual Secondary Vocational School of Economics and Trade to acknowledge its outstanding pedagogical achievements.

Competitions between schools

The students of the schools have continuously achieved excellent results both in the national and the Budapest competitions. They succeeded in taking part in the final round of the National Competitions for High School Students in several subjects. In 2014 Szendi Zsombor won first prize in the Russian language.

High above the national average in the national competency assessment

It was the tenth time the 10 grade students had been evaluated in the national competency assessment in 2014 to measure their skills in reading comprehension and in mathematics.

Final examinations

In the period of final examinations for the spring of 2015, the students of the Hunfalvy school ACHIEVED SIGNIFICANT RESULTS. They had achieved the best results for the previous ten years. The average grade of the school leavers in the intermediate and high level examinations was 4.23 as compared to the national average of 3.57.