Adam Mickiewicz High School in Poznań (VIII Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu) is a high school in Poznań

Poznan

Poznań is a city on the Warta river in west-central Poland, with a population of 556,022 in June 2009. It is among the oldest cities in Poland, and was one of the most important centres in the early Polish state, whose first rulers were buried at Poznań's cathedral. It is sometimes claimed to be...

, Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 founded by the priest and patriot Czesław Piotrowski in 1924 and named after the poet and patriot Adam Mickiewicz

Adam Mickiewicz

Adam Bernard Mickiewicz ) was a Polish poet, publisher and political writer of the Romantic period. One of the primary representatives of the Polish Romanticism era, a national poet of Poland, he is seen as one of Poland's Three Bards and the greatest poet in all of Polish literature...

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Some notable alumni include Anna Jantar

Anna Jantar

Anna Jantar-Kukulska was a popular Polish singer and mother of Natalia Kukulska.Born in Poznań as Anna Maria Szmeterling, she graduated from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She began her career in 1968 with the song Po ten kwiat czerwony. A year later she became the lead vocalist of the band...

, Ryszard Grobelny

Ryszard Grobelny

Ryszard Grobelny — mayor of Poznań since 1998.After his graduation from Adam Mickiewicz High School in Poznań and from Poznań University of Economics, Grobelny worked at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. In 1991 he joined Kongres Liberalno-Demokratyczny and later Unia Wolności...

, Maria Pasło-Wiśniewska and Marcin Libicki

Marcin Libicki

Marcin Libicki is a Polish politician, former member of the Polish parliament , elected for the Poznań constituency...

. The most notable teacher was until recently the poet and writer Bogusława Latawiec.

Due to huge financial demands for general refit, Poznań's city authorities are considering the possibility of finding a new place for a school and building a modern edifice.