Ferenc Földes Secondary School () is a secondary school in Miskolc, Hungary. It is famous for being one of the best secondary schools of the country. History The school came into being in 1953 with the unification of György Fráter Catholic Secondary School and József Lévay Protestant Secondary School. As a successor of these renowned institutions, it has a history of more than 450 years. The Protestant Secondary School was first mentioned in 1560 by Jenő Zoványi, in a work about the history of Protestantism in Hungary. In 1731 supervision over the school was given to the Roman Catholic Church. In 1881 the primary school was separated from the secondary school. In 1944, during the German occupation of the country the building was used for military purposes, and the school could move back only in 1946. On July 15, 1948, like all other schools in Hungary at the time, it was expropriated by the State. The other predecessor, the Catholic Secondary School was founded in 1729 by Didák Kelemen, a monk of the Minorite order. Its first building was a small one with only two classrooms. It stood on today's Kazinczy Street, not far from the present building of the school. During the following 100 years, the institution had to move several times, since its building was destroyed for various reasons on numerous occasions. During the war of independence in 1848–49 the building was used as part of a military hospital. The big flood of 1878 damaged the building, and the school lost its library of several thousand books. In 1886 it went into state property, and was renamed Royal Catholic Secondary School. Between 1910 and 1911 the new building of the school – designed by Gyula Orczy – was built on Heroes Square and the same building is used by the school since then. From 1914 to 1916 there was a military hospital in the building. In 1922 the school took the name of György Fráter because of a new law made in the previous year mandating that all secondary schools have to be named after important persons in Hungarian history. In 1936 it already had 946 students, which made it the second-largest school in Hungary. During World War II a military hospital used the building again, and in 1944 it was hit by a bomb. The school could move back only in 1945, but in 1949 it had