School № 1535 is a secondary school for students of years 7-11 in the Khamovniki District of Moscow, Russia.
History
Pre-lyceum period The school building was built in 1929 according to the project by architect M.Motylev.Новая жизнь старого лицея // ООО «Проектный институт» № 2. 2005.Московское наследие. Выпуск № 36.
Since 1930, the school was called Frunzensky District Secondary School №2 named after K.E.Voroshilov.Фрунзенский район, Средние школы //Вся Москва: Cправочник на 1936 год. In 1937, the school was renamed into Secondary School № 23 named after K.E.Voroshilov. The school building hosted military hospital during the WW-II.
Since 1956, old school building hosted Secondary Boarding School № 14 with classes with Chinese language specialization. Oriental languages have been studied in addition to English, German, or French.
Lyceum In 1991, experimental Lyceum with oriental specialization was opened. The Lyceum initially had 350 students. In 2004-2005, the school has been closed for renovation with two new buildings being added to the complex.
After merger with the School № 35 of I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University) (since 2010 – Sechenov Lyceum within Lyceum № 1535). The number of students reached 900.
In August 2017, all Moscow gymnasiums and Lyceums have been formally transferred to Schools,Столичные гимназии и лицеи перевели в статус обычных школ // Педсовет. Август. 2017/ hence the renaming to current name – School № 1535.
Management Directors:
1936 — I.P. Kazantsev, director of Secondary School № 2 named after K.E.Voroshilov. 1948 — Schepakin, director of Secondary School № 23 named after K.E.Voroshilov 1956 — Utenkov, Petr Arkadievich, director of Boarding School № 14. 1991 — Mokrinsky, Mikhail Gennadievich. Head of Education Department of Central District of Moscow since 2012.Мокринский Михаил Геннадиевич на сайте Департамента образования Москвы Since 2016, in the Letovo School. 2012 — Vorobyova, Tatiana Vasilievna, former director of Boarding School № 14.Директор лицея Татьяна Воробьева — об идеальном учителе и электронной школе // Официальный сайт Мэра Москвы. 1 сентября 2017. 2017 — Sekhin, Sergey Sergeevich, former director of School № 1210 of North-West District of Moscow.В Щукине появился новый образовательный комплекс : В Северо-Западном округе столицы продолжается объединение школ // Окружная газета СЗАО Москвы. 2017.
Modern school Admission is based on entrance exams. Average class is about 30 students.
Students of Years 7-9 specialize in the following areas:
mathematics humanitarian bio-medical
Students of Years 10-11 choose one of the following specializations:
social-humanitarian (with emphasis on history) social-humanitarian (with emphasis on mathematics) history & philology economics & mathematics physics & mathematics IT & technology biology & medicine (including Latin language) medicine and mathematics (on top of Russian, chemistry, and biology there is additional focus on mathematics) psychology socio-psychology
In school rankings 2006 — in the Moscow secondary schools ranking of Izvestia newspaper, the Lyceum got tied in 7th/8th place with Moscow Lyceum №1525 Vorobyevy Gory; the Lyceum №1525 was ranked firstamong schools for teaching French language and second for teaching English. 2008 — included by «Big City» magazine in the list of the “Most interesting schools in Moscow». 2010 — ranked 6th in Moscow for overall results in schools subjects’ Olympiads, and 4th for results of Unified State Examination (USE). 2011 — ranked 1st in Top-10 Best Schools in Moscow by Moscow city administration based on USE and Olympiads results, and ranked 1st in Best Secondary Schools in Economics by Moscow State University based on Open Schools Championship in Economics in 2011. Next year Lyceum №1535 again took the lead in the top Moscow schools ranking by the Moscow city Department of Education and remained undisputed leader of the Moscow ranking by 2016. 2013 — ranked 1st (tie with the Moscow Center for Continuous Mathematical Education) in top-500 Best Schools in Russia based on overall results of USE and all-Russian and international Olympiads. 2017 — ranked 4th in Top-500 Best Secondary Schools in Russia
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