English International School Prague
School in Prague, Czech Republic
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The English International School, Prague (EISP) was a fee-paying, international day school for pupils 2–18. The school followed the English curriculum and the teaching staff were primarily trained in the UK.
| English International School Prague | |
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Czech Republic 50°0′20.14″N 14°27′7.01″E | |
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| Established | 1995 |
Owner | Nord Anglia Education |
Principal | Mel Curtis |
| Age | 2 to 18 |
| Website | EISP Website at the Wayback Machine (archive index) |
It merged into the Prague British International School as of September 2018.[1]
History
The school was founded in 1995.[citation needed] It was previously in Na Okruhu 395, Prague 4.[2] Its final Prague 4 campus, Libuš campus at Brunelova 960/12, opened in 2007.[3] This campus, now a part of the British International School of Prague,[4] has a 6,782-square-metre (73,000 sq ft) building on a 18,029-square-metre (194,060 sq ft) plot of land.[5]
In 2015, Nord Anglia Education announced a global collaboration with The Juilliard School to enrich performing arts education in its schools.[6] The English International School Prague became one of ten pioneering schools to begin embedding this collaboration in its performing arts teaching, commencing in September 2015.[7]
Curriculum
The school uses the National Curriculum of England, and offers IGCSEs at 16 and the IB Diploma (International Baccalaureate Diploma) at 18. The English International School Prague has a small teacher to pupil ratio.[8] It is owned by Nord Anglia Education, which runs 43 schools internationally, educating more than 34,000 students in 15 countries.
Notable alumni
- Mikolas Josef (born 1995) – singer, songwriter, model[9]
