It is named after Svetozar Marković, a famous Serbian political activist, literary critic and socialist philosopher.

At Futoška Street (in the building of today's Mihajlo Pupin Electrical School) was the Đuro Daničić Gymnasium done in Serbian and Pap Pavle Gymnasium in Hungarian, which since 1957 have merged under the single name Moša Pijade.

[4] Following the liberation of all places in Vojvodina and the ousting of the Military Administration, a new stage in the development of education and training begins, the foundations of which date back to the socialist revolution of Yugoslavia and will continue until 1957.

This was also the case in Novi Sad and in the Higher Mixed Gymnasium, where in the first years after the revolution the school's eighth grade had more than a 1,000 pupils.

Soon, both First and Second Mixed Gymnasium were moved to an old high school building near the Saborna Church.

In the 1952/53 school year, 112 students enrolled at the Svetozar Marković Secondary Mixed Gymnasium, which was divided into three departments.

National Republic of Serbia has opted for the introduction of two-courses Gymnasiums, the science-mathematics and humanities-linguistics courses has been introduced.

[4][5] In 1983, the gymnasium has been re-organised and is changing its name to the Svetozar Marković Pedagogy Academy OOUR Secondary School.

Since 1996, the gymnasium was expanded, adding a building in Laze Lazarevića Street 1 in Telep.