NOK as a temporary solution that will last until at least 2014. From 2016 to 2017, the original building was closed for renovation and an additional building was being added between it and the classroom wing. The administration, the school library and some classes weretemporarily located at the former Tanks videregående skole. Academics Of the mainline courses offered in Norwegian upper secondary schools, only the generalist line, studiespesialisering, is offered by Bergen Cathedral School. The school is the only one in Bergen offering the IB Diploma Programme, from which about forty students graduate per year. In the 2005–2006 school year, the senior year students of Bergen Cathedral School received the third best grades in Western Norway, which was the highest achieving region of Norway. The school has a reputation as a prestigious school, because of its history and high grade requirements. Notable people Alumni A number of the most famous alumni in the history of the school are engraved in a plaque in the old building from 1840: Gjeble Pederssøn (c. 1490–1557), bishop Absalon Pederssøn Beyer (1578-1575), clergyman, writer and lecturer Edvard Edvardsen (1630-1695), historian Petter Dass (1647-1707), poet Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754), writer, playwright and lawyer Hans Strøm (1726-1797), topographer Claus Fasting (1674-1739), merchant, mayor and historian Martin Vahl (1749-1804), botanist and zoologist Nils Hertzberg (1827-1911), politician, theologist and teacher Jens Zetlitz (1761-1821), poet Hans Jacob Grøgaard (1764-1836), priest and Eidsvoll delegate Christopher Frimann Omsen (1761-1829), civil servant and Eidsvoll delegate Lyder Sagen (1777-1850), teacher and poet Wilhelm Frimann Koren Christie (1778-1849), civil servant and Eidsvoll delegate Nicolai Wergeland (1780-1848), theologist and Eidsvoll delegate Edvard Hagerup (1781-1853), politician Christian Lassen (1800-1876), orientalist Georg Prahl Harbitz (1802-1889), priest and politician Michael Sars (1805-1869), theologian and biologist Frederik Stang (1808-1884), Prime Minister Johann Sebastian Welhaven (1807-1873), poet and critic Ludvig Kristensen Daa (1809-1877), politician, historian and journalist Ole Bull (1810-1880) violinist and composer Johan Fritzner (1812-1893), priest and lexicographer Peter Andreas Jensen (1812-1867), priest and writer Sven Brun (1812-1894), priest Ole Irgens (1829-1906), teacher and politician Peter Waage (1833-1900), chemist Jacob Worm-Müller (1834-1889), physiologist Henrik Mohn (1835-1916), meteorologist Ernst Sars (1835-1917), historian and politician Armauer Hansen (1841-1912), physician Alf Torp (1853-1916), philologist Gerhard Gran (1856-1925), writer Christian Michelsen (1857-1925), shipping magnate and Prime Minister Lauritz Stub Wiberg (1875-1929), actor Harald Sæverud (1897-1992), composer Helge Ingstad (1899-2001), polar explorer, lawyer, Governor of Norwegian Occupied East Greenland 1932-33 Nordahl Grieg (1902-1943), poet, novelist, dramatist,