Augusta Witkowskiego) in Kraków, Poland, is one of the oldest secondary schools in the city, founded in 1871 by Franz Joseph I of Austria.

Simultaneously, it had also become one of the most acclaimed educational establishments in Galicia, primarily owing to the excellence of its teachers, many of whom were recruited from among the professors of the Jagiellonian University and the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts.

Excelling particularly in Maths and Physics, the school maintained its educational renown also during the interwar period, and its alumni were accepted without admission exams to the Lviv Polytechnic, deemed to be the best technical university in Poland at the time.

[1] The school and its community suffered heavy losses during World War II, but no sooner did the Nazi occupation of Poland come to an end than the classes promptly resumed and already in 1945 first students sat their school-leaving exams.

They range from the school choir and Oxford debate club to sports and scientific societies to regular student concerts held annually for Christmas and Carnival.