Students are known for often excelling in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, Latin, computer science, history, geography and logic.

[2] In 1946, a year after Croatia's entrance into Yugoslavia, its name was changed to the Fifth Gymnasium of Bogdan Ogrizović.

Bogdan Ogrizović was a prominent physicist in Zagreb who was best known as a high school teacher of physics and mathematics.

[3] In the period of Croatia's scrapping of the single-sex model and the creation co-educational institutions, the school merged in 1960 with the Seventh Woman's Gymnasium.

After this, it transformed into a high school primarily specialising in a program of mathematics and scientific subjects.