It was established as a three-class school in the 1850s, as a four-class school from 1872 and as a seven-class higher secondary school from 1895. In 1901 the school received its present building, in 1920 it was transformed into a grammar school and as a result of the educational reform of 1937 into the Second State Lyceum and Grammar School named after Nicolaus Copernicus in Ternopil.

Bartłomiej Gutowski