Trần Đại Nghĩa High School For The Gifted

Founded in 2000, the school was named after Professor Trần Đại Nghĩa, a scientist and weapon engineer who invented the Vietnamese bazooka and SKZ recoilless rifle during the Vietnam War.[3] The school was set up by repurposing existing facilities of the Lasantaberd Institute, which was established in 1877. It was the first school to have Intensive English program in Hồ Chí Minh City. 2003 marked the school's first graduating class.

The school has many academic facilities, including a library, 2 computer labs, an audiovisual room and a multimedia room. The school also contains one dining hall, a canteen and rooms for students to rest between classes. The school also has two basketball courts, three badminton courts as well as a volleyball court. In addition there are some basketball half-courts for students to practice inside the school ground. There are 6 blocks in the school: the main block in the center for the school managing board; 5 A, B, C, D, E blocks for classrooms. Additionally, block E is also used as a dining hall. As the number of students has been increasing every year, the number of classrooms and teachers has also risen.

In 2015, the school opened a second branch in District 2 for students from grades 6–7. With this, the entrance exam now accepts 525-600 students per year instead of the previous 300-400. This new branch includes 1 computer lab, a canteen, multiple sleeping quarters, and two dining halls. 2 out of 4 vice-principals are now working at branch 2. Due to the second branch being in District 2, an area far away from central Sai Gon, there is a shuttle service to help transfer students between the 2 schools.

In 2019, the school opened a free library for all students to access. Working time: Monday-Friday: 8am-4pm, Saturday  : 8am-12pm

Tran Dai Nghia High School's students are known to have high level of fluency in English, and the school has a reputation for being one of the best education institutions for foreign languages in Ho Chi Minh City.[4] Aside from English, high school students majoring in social subjects are also taught French, Korean, Chinese, Japanese or German as a second foreign language. In addition, classes of grade 10, 11 and 12 are ranged in to specializing classes such as English majoring class, Math majoring class, Literature majoring class, Chemistry majoring class, Physics majoring class and Biology majoring class. There are also triple-subjected classes: Math-Chemistry-Physics and Math-Literature-English classes. A growing number of study abroad scholarships are won by students, a fact on which the school prides itself.[5][6]

The school is a semi-boarding one in which students stay from 7:00 am to 4:30 pm for grade 8-12. Grade 6-7 stay from 7:30 am to 3:45 pm.

Classes are broken into 4 periods for grade 6-9 students and 5 periods for the rest in the morning. In the afternoon, classes start at 1:15 and usually lasts until 4:30, with a break from 2:45 pm to 3:00 pm. On Saturday, students in selection teams gather to take extra classes on the subject they major. After that, they can go home or use the school's facilities.

Extracurricular sports classes are available from 4:30 to 5:00 pm. As these classes are taught in the school yard, students are prohibited from entering the school yard for safety reasons.